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C Robert Jones

C ROBERT JONES

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Born in Rock Hill, SC. B.A., University of South Carolina; M.A., University of Georgia; M.F.A., Catholic University of America. Resident Direc-tor, Little Theatre, Savannah, GA. Chairman, Founder, Department of Theatre Arts, Gardner-Webb College. Currentl

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Belonging Place, A         Bert Williams, Broadway Star         Blabbermouth         Catbird Seat         Clown, The         Coming Out In Atlanta         Double Wedding         Heart Of the Tiger         I Like It Here         Love Is Better Than the Next Best Thing         Love Quartette, The         Makeover         Making Pleasure A Business Or the Pun Of It All         Mandy Lou         Marked For Murder         Nocturne         Rivals         Salieri Effect, The         Senator's Wife, The         Something Beautiful         Spelling Bee, The         Taking A Chance On Love         Teacher         Time For Singing, A         Treasures         Wednesday's Children

Belonging Place, A

Synopsis:
, begins during World War I at Kate's death in the flu epidemic. Hilda Marx, a German opera singer and one of 2,000 German nationals interned in the town, becomes nurse to ten-year-old Marcie ammons. a love story between abel and Hilda is complicated by the fact that abel's son, Ben, is a soldier in France and Hilda's fiance is one of the other interned Germans

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etchings in Firelight, collective title for trilogy

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Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre    -

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Genre:
Play with Music

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  3c

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Bert Williams, Broadway Star

Synopsis:
Bert Williams one of the first high profile Broadway stars who was black. He starred in the Ziegfeld Follies, starred in films and was a major recording star

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Genre:
Monolgue play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Blabbermouth

Synopsis:
Lanky and PruElla work in the General Store. PruElla challenges Lanky to speak nothing but the truth for a whole morning

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Genre:
One act Childrens play

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Catbird Seat

Synopsis:
after a fifty year ministry as the head of a religious sect andy decides on his 70th birthday to step down and hand over to his son Wesley. Before this can happen Wesley is killed in a car crash. Wesley's wife wants to take over - but andy feels that his people are not ready for a woman leader. His other son Jeff is suggested - but andy has spurned Jeff because he is gay.

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won the Robert Chesley Foundation Playwriting Award

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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay theme/character, full length

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Clown, The

Synopsis:
Mumbles the Clown falls in love with ballerina Doria. The circus owner is jealous and frames Mumbles for theft

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Little Theatre Of Savannah, Ga    -

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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma,    -

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full length Musical

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Coming Out In Atlanta

Synopsis:
Rosa and Sol go to see a show that includes a drag impersonation of the young Lisa Minnelli. they are shocked to discover that the drag artist is their son Lenny. they confront him in his dressing room and Lenny has another surprise for them too - he is gay

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Originally performed with three other short plays under the title of: "the Love Quartet"

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Genre:
Short play. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Double Wedding

Synopsis:
Ned's wedding is about to take place. He has invited his grandmother who turns up with Madeleine's (Madeleine is his much older bride to be) ex-husband. Granny says she wants to marry him - so they plan a double wedding. Meanwhile Edgar has decide to re-marry one of his ex-wives

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Sequel to "Taking A Chance On Love"

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Heart Of the Tiger

Synopsis:
tells the story of abel am-mons and his first wife, Kate, whose marriage is disapproved by a domineering father. a power-play ensues between Father and daughter with unexpected results

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etchings in Firelight, collective title for trilogy

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Licklog Players, Nc    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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I Like It Here

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Adventures in the Wild and Wonderful World of Theatre. Pisgah Press.   -

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Love Is Better Than the Next Best Thing

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Numerous Productions    -

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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma,    -

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Love Quartette, The

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won the Robert Chesley Foundation Playwriting Award

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Makeover

Synopsis:
Caitlin has written a book and her publishers want her to promote it. the book is called "How To Make a Man Happy" and Caitlin is a nun. . ..

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Originally performed with three other short plays under the title of: "the Love Quartet"

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Making Pleasure A Business Or the Pun Of It All

Synopsis:
a computer geek and an older woman find that they have a lot in common

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Originally performed with three other short plays under the title of: "the Love Quartet"

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mandy Lou

Synopsis:
a seventeen-year-old debutante, returns from finishing school to find her Father in jail, wrongly accused of forgery, and crafty overseer Rufus Tattnall, try-ing to wrest away her home, Bellemaison Plantation. To top it all, there is a mix-up in Mandy Lou's cotillion partners, an unknown baby left on the doorstep, and some surprising news about a Ship-wreck twenty years before. Family show with fourteen songs. the play holds the attendance record for the theater that premiered it.

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Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre    -

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Dramatic Publishing Co., 4150 N. Milwaukee ave., Chicago, IL,    -

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Genre:
musical comedy, full length Musical

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Male:  8            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Marked For Murder

Synopsis:
1880 ellie is sailing to europe with her aunt Lucinda. Her fiance Mark warns her that Lucinda plans to murder her for her inheritance. But Mark is in league with Lucinda. then Mark is murdered

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Numerous Productions    -

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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma,    -

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Play/Drama

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Nocturne

Synopsis:
a white artist from America's South goes to live in New York. She is blinded in an accident and can no longer paint. She asks to have someone come and read to her and is sent a streetwise young black guy

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Original title: "Chiaroscuro" Also known As "Nocturne For A Southern Lady"

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rivals

Synopsis:
Musical comedy adaptation of Sheridan's comedy updated to 1889. Mrs. MalAprop has spirited her nieces, Lydia Languish and Juliette Melville, away from London to stave off the atten-tions of young suitors, absolute and Faulkland. the plot closely follows the original, ending hap-pily with even Mrs. MalAprop getting her man. Twenty-three songs. Original cast album available.

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Owen Theatre, Mars Hill College, Nc    -

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Genre:
full length Musical

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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Salieri Effect, The

Synopsis:
Calvin Love playwright and former Tony Award winner. But since the Tony all his subsequent plays have flopped. He is desperate for a hit. The director of his new play quits and the producer hires a brash new young director. Love does not like him and fires him.

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Senator's Wife, The

Synopsis:
the widow of a Democrat Senator has agreed to marry a Republican Senator. Both families are up in arms over it

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Something Beautiful

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Numerous Productions    -

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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma,    -

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Spelling Bee, The

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Gardner-Webb College    -

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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma,    -

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full length Musical

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Taking A Chance On Love

Synopsis:
Edgar runs a newspaper. It has been run by his family for eighty years. Edgar and his mother plus Edgar's two ex-wives are the joint owners. a newspaper conglomerate wants to buy it and Edgar invites the three women co-owners for the weekend to discuss the matter. It will also be their first chance to met Ned's (Edgar's son) fiancee. everyone is shocked to discover she is as old as Ned's mother.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Teacher

Synopsis:
Charlie is having trouble writing a one act play for his passing grades. He is willing just to scrape through but his tutor has other ideas

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Originally performed with three other short plays under the title of: "the Love Quartet"

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Time For Singing, A

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etchings in Firelight, collective title for trilogy

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Gardner-Webb College    -

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Treasures

Synopsis:
1891 and a Southern Belle falls for a jock athlete at college

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Music, lyrics and book by C Robert Jones

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Wednesday's Children

Synopsis:
set between 1929 and 1932, is the story of abel's two children, Marcie and Ben, and the complications brought into their lives by their neighbor, Laura Lee Ledbetter, and a handsome young school principal, Clay Delaney, who is loved by both girls. Laura Lee's rejection by Clay sets up a chain of events which changes the lives of everyone in a wrenching and devastating way

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Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  3c

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