Time Out for Ginger
{{Short description|1952 play by Ronald Alexander}}
{{Infobox play
| name = Time Out for Ginger
| image = Time Out For Ginger.jpg
| caption = Original Playbill for Time Out for Ginger
| writer = Ronald Alexander
|director = Shepard Traube (1907–1983){{cite web |last1=Fraser |first1=C. Gerald |title=SHEPARD TRAUBE, 76, IS DEAD; STAGE PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/25/obituaries/shepard-traube-76-is-dead-stage-producer-and-director.html |website=The New York Times |date=25 July 1983}}
| characters = Virginia Carol
Howard Carol
Ginger Carol
Agnes Carol
Jeanie Carol
Joan Carol
Tommy
Lizzie
Eddie Davis
Ed Hoffman
Mr.Bob Wilson
| setting = The living room of the Carol house
| date of premiere = November 26, 1952
| place = United States
| subject =
| genre = Comedy
| web =
}}
Time Out for Ginger is a Broadway comedy written by Ronald Alexander, and directed by Shepard Traube (1907–1983), that ran 248 performances at the Lyceum Theatre from November 26, 1952, to June 27, 1953, before becoming hugely popular in regional theatres throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.
Cast
- Melvyn Douglas as Howard Carol
- Nancy Malone as Ginger Carol
- Polly Rowles{{cite web | url=https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/time-out-for-ginger/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002214141/https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/time-out-for-ginger/ | archive-date=2022-10-02 | title=Time Out for Ginger }}
- Conrad Janis
- Laura Pierpont
- Philip Loeb
- Larry Robinson
- Nancy Malone
Stage
The Broadway production starred Melvyn Douglas as Howard Carol, a middle-class husband and father of three girls, one of whom, Ginger (Nancy Malone), wants to try out for her school's football team. At first supportive of his daughter's goal, he begins to feel pressure from Ed Hoffman (Philip Loeb), the president of the bank where he works, and the community at large. The setting is the Carols' living room.
In 1954, several of the original cast members, including Melvyn Douglas, Nancy Malone and Philip Loeb, took the play to Chicago, where Steve McQueen replaced Broadway's Conrad Janis as Eddie Davis who was later replaced by Ralph E. Compton.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060620030604/http://mcqueenonline.com/ginger.htm Steve McQueen]}} in Time Out for Ginger Loeb had been blacklisted from television and radio several years earlier and the production was his last major role before he committed suicide on September 1, 1955.
In 1964, Liza Minnelli played Ginger at the Bucks County Playhouse.[http://www.ralphmiller.com/playhouse/bcphis64.html Bucks County Playhouse] Liza Minnelli in Time Out for Ginger
Television adaptations
On 6 October 1955, at 8:30 p.m., Jack Benny starred in a one-hour CBS television adaptation, broadcast for Shower of Stars, with Ruth Hussey, Gary Crosby, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Wickes, Larry Keating, John Hoyt, Ronnie Burns, Olive Sturgess, Carol Leigh, and Janet Parker as Ginger.
- https://archive.org/download/tvguide-oregon-1955-10-01/tvguide-oregon-1955-10-01.pdf
- https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-TV-Index/1955/TV-Index-1955-10-03.pdf
- https://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/ShowerOfStars_02_(1955-56).htm
- https://time.com/archive/6870344/television-program-preview-oct-10-1955/
In 1960, Ziv Television Programs adapted a television pilot, Time Out for Ginger, as part of The Comedy Shop, an anthology of prospective series. Original playwright Alexander wrote the script for the pilot, which starred Candy Moore (in her first television role) as Ginger, with Roberta Shore as older sister Joan, Maggie Hayes as Agnes, former radio star Karl Swenson as Howard, and Margaret Hamilton as the Carols' maid, the pilot was not picked up as a regular series. Candy Moore went on to play one of Lucille Ball's two young children in The Lucy Show.
Film adaptation
The play was adapted into the 1965 feature film, Billie, starring Patty Duke.
References
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External links
- {{IBDB title|2363|Time Out for Ginger}}
- {{IMDb title|0700175|Time Out for Ginger|(Shower of Stars broadcast)}}
- [https://archive.org/details/Time_Out_For_Ginger Time Out for Ginger 1960 television pilot] based on the play at the Internet Archive
- {{IMDb title|0058972|Billie}}
- {{IMDb name|0018712|Ronald Alexander}}
- {{IBDB name|8472|Ronald Alexander}}
- {{IBDB title|3050|Nobody Loves an Albatross}}