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JACK KYRIELEISON (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd |
Jack Kyrieleison conceived and wrote the book for REUNION: A MUSICAL EPIC IN MINIATURE, first produced by Goodspeed Opera House before runs off-Broadway and at Ford's Theatre. He wrote the book and lyrics for A COWBOY'S CAROL, a John Ford Western rethinking of the Dickens Christmas classic. A long-time actor, he toured nationally and internationally with Chita Rivera in Can-Can and his many regional credits include roles at Arena Stage, the Goodman Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Ford's Theatre, Round House Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Marriott Lincolnshire, Birmingham Theatre and Olney Theatre. He lives in the Washington, DC area with his wife and son.
Plays by Jack Kyrieleison
Cowboy's Carol, A | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38948 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 3 children, onstage band of 4 musicians | |||||
Notes: | Book by Jack Kyrieleison, Original Music by John Aschenbrenner, Original Lyrics by Jack Kyrieleison. | |||||
Synopsis: | If Charles Dickens and Hollywood legend John Ford had met, the results might have been A Cowboy's Carol. Inspired by Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," this family musical tells a tale of intolerance, greed and rebirth where 3 cultures collide on the New Mexico border. A group of singing cowboys take us on a Christmas Eve journey into the dark heart of Ethan Scrawlett--"the man who rides alone." With 8 new songs in the cowboy tradition, and 4 traditional Mexican songs, including the haunting Las Posadas celebration | |||||
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Reunion: A Musical Epic in Miniature | ||
| 1st Produced: | Goodspeed Opera House | 1996 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-66359-8 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38947 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Book by Jack Kyrieleison. Story by Jack Kyrieleison & Ron Holgate. Traditional music adapted by Michael O'Flaherty. First produced by the Goodspeed Opera House as "Battle Cry of Freedom". Subsequently produced off-Broadway by Eugene Kallman and AMAS Music | |||||
| A moving musical narrative of the Civil War, told in the words of the very diverse men and women who sided with the Union. Presented as a musical entertainment years after the events by the rag-tag company of actor Harry Hawk, the man who stood alone on stage when Lincoln was shot by Booth. Reunion is an attempt to tell the story of the Civil War through the eyes of those who took up the Union cause--an intersection of theatre and history, weaving together songs, visual images and dialogue. It is designed as a Victorian entertainment--the great American epic as it might have been told by a 19th-Century Homer and a wandering company of actors. | |||||
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