Houdini
a musical
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913- - Contributor
Publication
2002 - Paris Press, Ashfield, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
37,500 words, Guess
Page Count
150 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehoudinimusical0000span
- ISBN-101930464045
- ISBN-101930464053
- ISBN-139781930464049
- ISBN-139781930464056
and 6 more
- Goodreads691653', '910759
- Library of Congress Control Number2002070378
- OCLC Control Number49698865
- Better World Books9781930464049
- Better World Books9781930464056
- Open LibraryOL3569132M
Classifications
- DDC812/.52
- LCCML50 .S736 2002
- LCCPS3535.U4H68 2002
and 1 more
- LCCPS3535.U4 H68 2002
Description
"This previously unpublished verse-drama presents the life of world-renowned escape artist and illusionist, Harry Houdini. Part biography, part fantasy, the musical leads us from Houdini's childhood in Appleton, Wisconsin (picking up pins with his eyelids) to his acts under water and his travels abroad. With pathos and playfulness, song and dance, Muriel Rukeyser introduces us to Houdini's wife Bess and his mother Cecilia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the poet's own Marco Bone. The musical presents Houdini's congressional testimony against spiritual mediums, and shows his great feats of escape, his complex relationships with his mother and his wife, and his ironic, untimely death on Halloween 1926.". "Throughout this remarkable work, Rukeyser challenges the locks and constraints that imprison us all. She invites us to overcome whatever fears entrap us and - through the life of Harry Houdini - she shows us what it means to claim the freedom that is our birth right."--BOOK JACKET.
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