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DOUGLAS M PARKER (1963 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
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Plays by Douglas M Parker |
BESSIE: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roxy Regional Theatre, Clarksville, TN | - - - | ||||
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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 | #93705 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Incorporates many of the classic popular and blues songs that made her famous. | |||||
Synopsis: | Orphaned and penniless at seven, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith ultimately rose to become a household name and the highest paid Black entertainer in America - with a private railway car, boxes of diamonds, and records that routinely sold over half a million copies each. But behind all her success was a hard-drinking, street-fighting private life, an unhappy marriage to a violent, philandering husband, and a sudden fall from grace that left her having to battle her way to the top not once, but twice. | |||||
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Life on the Mississippi | ||
| 1st Produced: | Goodspeed Opera House | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #77702 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Denver Casado; lyrics by Douglas M Parker; book by Douglas M Parker. Based on "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Mark Twain's autobiographical coming-of-age classic. In Life on the Mississippi, the 22 year-old Samuel Clemens leaves home to learn steamboat piloting on a Mississippi riverboat in 1858 and unexpectedly finds himself learning about life. And death. And love. All while navigating his way from boy to man and from Sam Clemens to Mark Twain. | |||||
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Thicker Than Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #93706 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Based on the true story of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in the bathtub. | |||||
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