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DON STITT (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: About Artists Agency |
Don Stitt has been performing professionally since 1965, and did his first commercial in 1967. He has been featured in four Broadway musicals, four major tours, and has been seen on the television programs The Late Show with David Letterman and Law & Order, as well as the feature film Simon. He has been writing scripts since 1974, and nearly every one has been produced. Don is married to Liz Popiel, scenic designer for the ABC television program Good Morning America. Don made his UK debut in 2007 at the Edinburgh Fringe Ferstival with his musical memoir, The Voices in my Head have Formed a Choir and Somebody's Singing Flat!
Plays by Don Stitt
Babes on 42nd Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Little Theatre, San Francisco State University, CA | 1974 | ||||
Company: | San Francisco State University | |||||
| 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 | #74169 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Bit parts for piano, bass & drums | |||||
Synopsis: | A lighthearted spoof of the "Backyard Musicals" MGM produced for Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the 1930's. 60 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Civil Intercourse | ||
| 1st Produced: | Student Center Theatre, Danbury, Connecticut | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Danbury Literary Festival | |||||
| 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 | #74170 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A romantic triangle comedy with a twist. 75 minutes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crisis of Biblical Proportions, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #74171 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedic allegory for our changing relationship with religion. 30 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Doonesbury Revue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Black Box, San Francisco State University, CA | 1975 | ||||
Company: | San Francisco State University | |||||
| 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 | #74172 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book, music and lyrics by Don Stitt, (with many of Garry B. Trudeau's comic strips quoted verbatim therein) | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedic musical based upon the popular comic strip by Garry B. Trudeau. 60 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fierce Urgency of Now, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Homegrown Theatre, New York, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Louder, Faster, Funnier | |||||
| 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 | #74173 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A play by Don Stitt; performed once in a staged-reading | |||||
Synopsis: | A two-character, one-set drama about an Enron-type corporate collapse, whose themes are integrity, personal responsibility, and how a friendship disintegrates. 90 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Irving Berlin in Revue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chi Chi Theatre Club, San Francisco, CA | 1978 | ||||
Company: | The Berlin Company | |||||
| 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 | #74174 | |||
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Genre: | musical revue Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Libretto by Don Stitt and Barry Koron. Conceived, Staged and Choreographed by Don Stitt | |||||
Synopsis: | A witty examination of the life and work of Tin Pan Alley song-plugger-turned-producer Irving Berlin, featuring many anecdotes amid such songs as Alexander's Ragtime Band, There's No Business Like Show Business, They Say That Falling in Love is Wonderful, A Pretty Girl is like a Melody, and God Bless America. 90 minutes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brown Bag Theatre, San Francisco, California | 1977 | ||||
Company: | The Brown Bag Players, Jack Cook, producer | |||||
| 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 | #74175 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book, Music & Lyrics by Don Stitt, based upon Neil Simon's comedy, The Star Spangled Girl | |||||
Synopsis: | A musical re-working of Neil Simon's comedy, The Star Spangled Girl, set in an alternative music recording company. 60 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kid's Summer Night's Dream, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. George's Theatre, New York, NY | 1979 | ||||
Company: | Artists' Production Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #74176 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Musical Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book by Don Stitt and Dr. Wm. "Bo" Westerfield, music and lyrics by Don Stitt | |||||
Synopsis: | A funny, simplified, modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for ages 7-12, with a pop rock score.70 minutes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roscoe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Symphony Space, New York, NY | 2004 | ||||
Company: | EdVenture Productions | |||||
| 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 | #74177 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 15 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This was produced as a staged reading at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at New York's Symphony Space. Book and lyrics by Don Stitt, Music by Seth Evans. The script and score may be perused at http://sethevans.net/roscoe | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of the downfall of the beloved silent screen comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who was wrongfully accused of a heinous crime, was destroyed in the press by Wm. Randolph Hearst, and was acquitted in a court of law, with Dashiell Hammett as narrator, Buster Keaton as the wisecracking sidekick, and Roscoe's wife, Minta, as the woman who stood by him when he had no one else to turn to. 120 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Voices In My Head Have Formed A Choir And Somebody's Singing Flat!, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Mongo Productions | |||||
| 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 | #71504 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book, Music and Lyrics by Don Stitt, with the exception of the song "Love Makes You Whole, music by Larry Hochman, lyrics by Don Stitt | |||||
Synopsis: | A memoir of uncommon people Mr. Stitt encountered on the road to "a mythical land called Broadway," and an explanation of why they are now only "voices in his head." 60 minutes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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