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JIM BERNHARD |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Jim Bernhard is the author of 14 produced dramatic works, five of them musicals. With composer Ned Battista, he wrote Sir Jack, based on Shakespeare's Falstaff, which was produced at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston in 1971 and subsequently broadcast on Houston PBS television. Scrooge, with music by Mark Holden, has been produced by Theatre Under The Stars at Houston's Music Hall, Austin's Performing Arts Center, and Houston Arena Theatre in 1978, 1981, 1982, and 1999. With Battista and composer Don Elam, Bernhard is the author of Ninfa!, a biographical musical at Miller Outdoor Theatre in 1982. With Alan Taylor, he co-authored the book for Emergency Room, produced at the Tower Theatre in Houston in 1983, and he wrote book and lyrics for Zorro: the Musical, produced by Theatre Under The Stars in 1998 at Wortham Theater Center in Houston. His dramas and comedies have been produced at Dean Goss Dinner Theatre, Playwrights Showcase, Curtains Theatre, Pasadena Little Theatre, and the Country Playhouse. Also an actor, Bernhard has appeared in the United States, Canada, England and Germany in a variety of Shakespearean, contemporary, and musical roles. Bernhard is a crossword puzzle constructor, whose puzzles have appeared in The New York Times and other publications.
Plays by Jim Bernhard
Associates | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1969 | ||||
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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 | #106954 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | George, visiting with John in his living room, discloses that he desperately needs a place to stay after a bizarre series of incidents that have left him puzzled and frightened. John offers him a position as an "associate" in his organization and subjects him to a strange application process. A number of psychological epiphanies lead to a climax that is extremely unsettling to George. | |||||
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Author! Author! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Dean Goss Dinner Theatre | 1979 | ||||
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 | #113038 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Henry, president of a small, conservative New England liberal arts college, is also the author (under a pseudonym) of sensational and sexually explicit best-selling novels. His wife, Ruth, tolerates his deception but thinks he ought to tell the truth. Bradley, a New York gossip columnist has learned his identity from Henry's publisher and arrives to interview Henry for an expose. Panicked, Henry tries various means to throw the columnist off the trail; but meanwhile Henry's daughter, Kay, falls for Bradley. An eccentric literature professor seeking Henry's help in publishing his poems, the strait-laced chairman of the college's board, and the arrival of Henry's tipsy publisher complicate matters. | |||||
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Deadlock | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Country Playhouse | 1988 | ||||
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 | #113039 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Written under the name Herman J. Bird, with Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | Russell, a once-rich oil heir, is found murdered on a disused oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is rumored that he has a large sum of money hidden on the oil rig. Suspects include his handyman, Peewee; his housekeeper, Cassie; his girlfriend; Lenore; two visiting journalists, Ed and Kim, a married couple; and Dudley, a hotshot helicopter pilot. The action takes place in reverse chronological order. | |||||
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Emergency Room | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Tower Theatre | 1983 | ||||
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 | #113040 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | Wriiten by Jim Bernhard; Book co-authored with Alan C. Taylor, and with music and lyrics by Alan C. Taylor | |||||
Synopsis: | The chaotic parade of patients, some tragic, some hilarious, in an urban hospital emergency room presided over by a fatuous administrator, Mr. Chumley, takes its toll on the resident doctors, Andy and Julie. | |||||
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In Sickness and In Sickness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Playwrights Showcase | 1971 | ||||
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 | #113041 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A patient lies immobile in a hospital bed, attached to tubes and machines, while his wife, son, mistress, boss, priest, doctor, and nurse squabble over him. | |||||
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Maestri, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Playwrights Showcase | 1972 | ||||
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 | #113042 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A noted conductor troubled by professional burnout is visited by a mysterious young virtuosa. | |||||
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Ninfa! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Miller Outdoor Theatre, Theatre Under The Stars | 1982 | ||||
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 | #113043 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Wriiten by Jim Bernhard; Book co-authored with Frank M. Young, music by Ned Battista and Don Elam | |||||
Synopsis: | The rise and fall and rise of an indomitable Mexican-American widow with five children who overcomes many adversities to establish a successful chain of restaurants. | |||||
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Not In Mixed Company | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Dean Goss Dinner Theatre | 1985 | ||||
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 | #113044 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A couple getting a divorce get together with their new flames (a tennis pro and a cheerleader), joined by a lawyer and a psychiatrist, to sort out the terms of the divorce. In the course of a party, the couples re-combine. | |||||
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One of the Family | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Playwrights Showcase | 1970 | ||||
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 | #113045 | |||
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Genre: | Two-act comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A long-married couple with a missing son take in a young woman as a boarder, with disastrous consequences. | |||||
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Renaissance Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York, Christ Church Methodist Church | 1979 | ||||
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 | #113046 | |||
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Genre: | Two-act philosophical colloquy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A lively and disputatious exchange among Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, Henry VIII, Thomas More, Geoffrey Chaucer, Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Joan of Arc, the Wife of Bath, and others. | |||||
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Reunion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Playwrights Showcase | 1972 | ||||
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 | #113047 | |||
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Genre: | Two-act comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | An American architect and his wife are visited by an old English university classmate of the architect; the classmate proposes that the two men change places in life. | |||||
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Rigged for Murder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Curtains Theatre | 1993 | ||||
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 | #113048 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Rewritten version of Deadlock, Written by Jim Bernhard under the name Herman J. Bird, with Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive and Well and Doing. Two Shows A Night in Blackpool | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Playwrights Showcase | 1969 | ||||
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 | #113049 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Hamlet's two chums are working as vaudevillians in England, when they are visited by a stranger who wants to hire them to remove the last member of the Fortinbras family from the Danish throne. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scrooge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Music Hall, Theatre Under The Stars | 1978 | ||||
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 | #113050 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Music by Mark Holden | |||||
Synopsis: | A re-telling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with a jive-talking, jazz-singing, tap-dancing Ghost. | |||||
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Sir Jack | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Miller Outdoor Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars | 1972 | ||||
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 | #113051 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Ned Battista | |||||
Synopsis: | The outrageous antics and tragic fall from royal favor of the old reprobate Sir John Falstaff, drawn from Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Without A Clue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasadena, Texas, Pasadena Little Theatre | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | 2002, I. E. Clark, Schulenburg, Texas | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113052 | |||
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Notes: | Rewritten version of Author! Author!, Written by Jim Bernhard under the name Herman J. Bird, with Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Zorro: the Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, 1998, Wortham Theatre Center, Theatre Under The Stars | 1998 | ||||
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 | #113053 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Based on The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCauley, written with Frank M. Young, with music by Randy Rogel and various composers | |||||
Synopsis: | The legendary hero of Spanish California defeats the villains and wins the girl. | |||||
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