[Englecturers] Mash Series Creator Talk

[John Ganim]

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“An Evening with Larry Gelbart” at UCR Palm Desert
M*A*S*H* series creator tells tales from his legendary life in comedy
(November 21, 2006)

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Larry Gelbart
 Larry Gelbart
Palm Desert, Calif. (www.palmdesert.ucr.edu) – 
Legendary radio, television, stage and 
screenwriter Larry Gelbart, will discuss his life 
and career in “An Evening with Larry Gelbart” at 
the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center Theater on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 6:30 p.m..

Gelbart will participate in an Inside the Actor’s 
Studio-style conversation with Laurie Winer, the 
former chief drama critic for the Los Angeles 
Times and theater critic for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Gelbart began his writing career while still in 
high school in the 1940s writing for the “Maxwell 
Coffee House Time with Danny Thomas” radio 
series. He also wrote for “Duffy’s Tavern” and “The Eddie Cantor Show.”

When he left radio, he went on to become one of 
the architects of what is now called the golden 
age of television; writing for Sid Ceasar’s “Your 
Show of Shows,” in the 1950s along with Woody 
Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.

In the following decades, Gelbart wrote the books 
for the long-running Broadway hit “A Funny Thing 
Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1962) with 
Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim and “City of 
the Angeles” (1989) with Cy Coleman and David 
Zippel. Both musicals earned him Tony Awards.

Gelbart is perhaps best know as one of the 
creators of the highly acclaimed 1970s television 
series “M*A*S*H*. “ He produced the series and 
wrote some of its finest episodes before leaving 
after the fourth season. For his work on 
“M*A*S*H*” Gelbart received many awards including 
an Emmy, a Peabody Award and two Humanitas Awards.

Tickets for this appearance cost $15 and $30 and 
are available now at http://webpay.ucr.edu . Also 
available is a special $100 package for two, 
which includes prime seating and invitations to a 
reception for Gelbart at a private home.

Anyone interested in applying to the UCR Palm 
Desert MFA program in creative writing and 
writing for the performing arts is invited to 
arrive at 5 p.m., discuss their application to 
the program with our faculty, and be the 
program’s guest to “An Evening with Larry Gelbart.”

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Coachella Valley. As a graduate center of UC 
Riverside, UCR Palm Desert offers graduate 
degrees in business administration with an 
emphasis on entrepreneurship and a master of fine 
arts with an emphasis on creative writing and 
writing for performance. Research activities 
include the Desert Studies Initiative of the 
Center for Conservation Biology; technology 
transfer; and Native American studies. Visit 
www.palmdesert.ucr.edu or call (760) 834-0800 for more information.

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John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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