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Snug Harbor Arts Center NYC

2005

Sun Dog Theater

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Two men who lost a brother on 9/11 learn about the meaning of moving on, the meaning and value of art and the meaning of life. Ars Longs, Vita Brevis is Latin for "life is short, art is long"

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, USA >>>

1995

O'Neill National Playwrights Conference

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

3

2

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Notes:
Simple one set production, minimal needs.

Synopsis:
A Love of the Game is set in the early sixties in rural Georgia. Homer is a former Negro League centerfielder with an uncanny ability to see exactly what is going on around him and to explain it all in terms of baseball. He works for the Braggs - a white family in the south, with money, some land and a daughter. Willene is set on marrying Vance, a local boy who dreams of more than life in a small town. Willene's father, Willie, was a minor league ball player, who might have made it big, "if they hadn't changed the rules and let those players from the other league." Willie's wife, Paris, sees the limitations she faces, listening to men talk about achieving things in a world where women can only dream. She sees the dreamer in Vance and thinks that if he stays and marries Willene, neither of those young people will ever be happy. In her efforts to convince the boy to leave, she drives the two young people even closer together, so that in the end she is the force that brings about their decision to get married.

Snug Harbor Arts Center NYC

2002

Groton Players

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Christmas Play

Comedy

6

7

Various children if wanted

Notes:
a new take on A Christmas Carol. Combines Dicken's classic with a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery. Very funny. And moving.

Synopsis:
A London stage in the year 1880. An amateur theater company putting together the first production ever of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Dr. Watson is the Stage Manager. Sherlock Holmes, noted detective and amateur violinist, provides the music. Play opens at the last rehearsal. The director is an overbearing artist. The actor playing Marley is a mischief maker who irritates the entire cast to distraction. Several of the players, including his wife, threaten to rid themselves of his company. The director struggles to get the Christmas play on its feet. We see the opening scenes of Dickens' story, up until the point where Marley's ghost speaks to Scrooge. At this point Marley interrupts the proceedings by actually dying on the set. And the mystery is begun. Holmes gathers the clues, explores the scene of the crime and discovers many possible murderers. In fact he finds good reason for any one or several of the characters to have done the deed. While waiting for Scotland Yard to arrive, the company decides to continue with the play rehearsal, in this way presenting a condensed production of A Christmas Carol. In the end the party responsible for Marley's misfortune goes through an epiphany like Scrooge's in the original and the two stories weave together into one celebration of life and the spirit of the holiday season.

Garde Arts Center, CT, USA >>>

1995

Tavern Players

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

romantic musical comedy

Musical

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Notes:
Been produced with full combo. Have all music arrangements for various sized orchestras. Also have all music recorded on digital multi-track, so vocals can be dropped out and prerecorded music used for frugal productions. Great audience responses so far. And great reviews. Funny and romantic for general audience, serious theater and community or school productions.

Synopsis:
Romeo and Juliet appear in Brooklyn to save Romeo and Celeste's marriage. Romeo Tucci is a salesman. Celeste loves poetry. He flees to Omaha, to become the world's greatest salesman, figuring, "if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere." Juliet gives him a potion there that turns all he says poetry. In Brooklyn, Celeste vows to teach a salesman a lesson. Romeo Montague appears with a vacuum, to show Celeste that "a good sale is poetry." In a scene from the original drama, he reveals that he was quick to love, never worked and at the first rough patch in a short marriage, bailed out. And Celeste views her husband in a new light. Romeo goes back to Brooklyn with his new poetic sensibility, but Celeste won't have him until he gets back to work. "Now that's beginning to sound like a sales pitch," she says when he uses his poetic gifts to make the sale of a lifetime. Romeo and Juliet have saved a marriage and Romeo has learned the value of hard work. And all will live happily ever after.