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JACK SHARRAR |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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photo Cynthia Smalley. Jack Sharrar is Director of Academic Affairs for the American Conservatory Theater, where he teaches in the M.F.A. program and received the Managing Director's Award for 2003. He has served as a theater panelist for the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts, has taught both university and secondary theater arts for over 30 years, and is a member of Actors' Equity and the Screen Actors Guild. His performance credits include roles at Michigan Repertory Theater, Mountainside Theater, the BoarsHead Theatre, Theatre 40, Pioneer Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater studios, numerous media roles, and direction of over 50 plays and musicals. He is author of Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays (UMI Press); contributor to Oxford University Press's The American National Biography, and The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Heritage: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (UMI Press); co-editor (with Craig Slaight) of numerous award-winning volumes of scenes and monologues for young actors published by Smith & Kraus, and Up In Avery's Room, a play. His play The Debutante is published with Playscripts, Inc. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and holds a Ph.D. in theater history and dramatic literature from the University of Utah.
Plays by Jack Sharrar
Debutante, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Conservatory Theater (MFA Program) (San Francisco, CA, United States) | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101946 | |||
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Genre: | 50-55 min Romance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 3 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | F. Scott Fitzgerald's original one-act play is given new life in this tale of a bittersweet romance between wealthy debutante Rosalind and handsome Armory Blaine. Though Armory may be the love of her life, Rosalind finds it impossible to be with a man who cannot provide for her in the style to which she is accustomed. Will Amory convince Rosalind to marry him, or will her spoiled nature keep her from true love? Set in his beloved Jazz age, this poignant, dreamily melancholic adaptation creatively preserves Fitzgerald's distinct narrative voice. | |||||
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Fair and Warmer | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101947 | |||
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Genre: | 110-120 min Comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 3 females | |||||
Notes: | Avery Hopwood (1882-1928) is benefactor of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, his alma mater. | |||||
Synopsis: | Fair and Warmer is a comedy of Temperament and Temperature by Avery Hopwood, adapted by Jack Sharrar. Johnny, a mild-mannered banker, gets his heart broken when his wife, Janet, requests a divorce. It's not that he's been a bad husband; in fact, it's just the opposite -- he's too nice and annoyingly predictable. Desperate to win back his wife's affection, Johnny follows the ill-advice of his friend and neighbor, Ralph, to make Janet question his fidelity. Unfortunately for Ralph, Ralph's own wife is the one who volunteers to help Johnny with his scheme. From compromising situations on a bearskin rug to the staggering effects of the "Green Elevator," the most potent cocktail to ever be concocted on stage, this adaptation from the Jazz-Age Broadway comedy hit follows these seemingly mismatched couples as they rediscover why they are together in the first place. | |||||
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Just for Tonight | ||
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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 | #137563 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length comedy adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Avery Hopwood (1882-1928) is benefactor of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, his alma mater. | |||||
Synopsis: | Just for Tonight is a comedy of exchanged personalities by Jazz-Age playwright Avery Hopwood, adapted by Jack Sharrar. The hilarious action unfolds in the apartment of Tommy Campbell, a leading portrait painter, who feels that his wife, Lecksy, isn't able to give him the artistic stimulation he requires. When Tommy's old flame, Sybil Martin, and her imbibing husband, Jimmie, stop by, tensions flare. Lecksy is certain that Tommy would rather be married to Sybil. And Sybil is certain she would rather not be married to her tipsy Jimmie. Into this conflict steps the Baba Mahrati, an East Indian holy man, who's determined to restore Tommy and Lecksy's shaken relationship. Unbeknownst to Lecksy, the Baba hypnotizes Tommy and transports his astral body into the person of Jimmie, where Tommy can learn Sybil's true nature. The situation escalates into a madcap escapade, when Jimmie's astral body finds its way into Tommy's body. Soon, Tommy learns much about Sybil, Jimmie learns more about Lecksy, and Lecksy and Sybil are driven to wits end by their mixed up husbands. All ends happily for Tommy and Lecksy, though, and, as for Sybil and Jimmie, well, it ends as happily as it can. | |||||
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Up in Avery's Room | ||
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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 | #137564 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-Drama (2 Acts) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Avery Hopwood (1882-1928) is benefactor of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, his alma mater. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 1924 and Avery Hopwood is the toast of Broadway, with four big hits-The Gold Diggers, The Bat, Spanish Love, and Ladies' Night (In a Turkish Bath). But he's had it with writing plays "for everybody"; his aspirations are higher. Can he fulfill them? A visit from a bright young fraternity brother forces him to face that question-and his tempestuous relationship with a "strong, impulsive, handsome" lover. Add a randy Italian brick-layer and a drop in from fervent dilettante Carl VanVechten and his spirited actress wife, Fania Marinoff, and Up in Avery's Room is a darkly-humorous, often moving tale of old Broadway that journeys through the wild excesses of the Jazz Age and into the wanting chambers of the human heart. | |||||
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