![]() ![]() She has written two other Victoria Martin books: My First Love and Other Disasters, and Love and Betrayal & Hold the Mayo. It was televised as an ABC After-School Special My Mother Was Never a Kid. She has also worked on the revision of another of his musicals, Carnival!, for the Kennedy Center in Washington.įrancine's first young adult novel, published in 1977, was called Hangin' Out with Cici, in which her heroine, Victoria Martin, went back in time and met her mother as a teenager. Since then, Francine has revised his musical Mack & Mabel. ![]() A television version of George M! was aired on NBC in 1970. Francine, her husband John, and her brother Michael worked together writing the book to the Broadway musical George M!, which ran at the Palace Theatre from 1968 - 1970. John died of cancer in 1981, at 49 years old.įrancine's brother was the prolific Broadway playwright and librettist Michael Stewart, who wrote the books to such musical hits as Bye Bye Birdie and Hello, Dolly!. Francine often credited John as her writing mentor, and they collaborated on several projects, including writing scripts for the ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds, which aired from 1964 - 1966. It was there that she first met author and journalist John Pascal and, in 1965, they were married (the second marriage for each). Francine Rubin Pascal graduated from New York University in 1958. ![]()
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