C ROBERTS JONES
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by C Roberts Jones
Belonging Place, A |
| 1st Produced: | Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 3c | |||
Notes: Etchings in Firelight, collective title for trilogy | ||||
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 | ||||
Crown, The |
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre of Savannah, GA | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, Boston, MA | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | full length | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Heart of the Tiger |
| 1st Produced: | Licklog Players, NC | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Etchings in Firelight, collective title for trilogy | ||||
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 | ||||
Love is Better Than the Next Best Thing |
| 1st Produced: | Numerous productions | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, Boston, MA | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mandy Lou |
| 1st Produced: | Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Co., 4150 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | musical comedy, full length | Musical | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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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. | ||||
Marked for Murder |
| 1st Produced: | Numerous productions | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, Boston, MA | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Rivals |
| 1st Produced: | Owen Theatre, Mars Hill College, NC | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full length | Musical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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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. | ||||
Something Beautiful |
| 1st Produced: | Numerous productions | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, Boston, MA | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Spelling Bee, The |
| 1st Produced: | Gardner-Webb College | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, Boston, MA | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | full length | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Time for Singing, A |
| 1st Produced: | Gardner-Webb College | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Etchings in Firelight, collective title for trilogy | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Wednesday's Children |
| 1st Produced: | Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 3c | |||
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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 | ||||