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JACK LARSON |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Lantz Office |
Born in Los Angeles, CA. Educated in Los Angeles and Pasadena City College. Writing in verse forms that interested composers, he be-gan collaborations with Virgil Thomson (opera, Lord Byron), Ned Rorem (Song Cycle), Gerhard Samuel (monodrama, The Relativity of Icarus, now a ballet by the Joffrey Company), and wrote text and scenario for a new ballet for the Joffrey, Orpheus Times Light2, also A Place for Peace with Virgil Thompson. New adaptation of mono-drama Lelio (Berlioz) premiered at Hollywood Bowl by Los Angeles Philharmonic; new concert adaptation of Egmont (Goethe-Beethoven), Los Angeles Music Pavilion and Carnegie Hall. Reci-pient: Rockefeller Foundation Grant; Ford Foun-dation grant; Koussevitzky Grant; commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Philharmonic (for concert adaptation of dramatic works Lelio and Egmont), San Francisco Chamber Symphony (for two monodramas for chamber orchestra and voice).
Address (in 1981): 449 Skyeway Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
Plays by Jack Larson
Byron | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Lab, Los Angeles, CA | - - - | ||||
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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 | #43226 | |||
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Genre: | adapted from opera libretto Adaptation | |||||
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Candied House, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leo S. Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art | - - - | ||||
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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 | #20081 | |||
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Genre: | rhymed verse | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A mystery play based on Grimm's Hansel and Gretel where the characters do not live happily ever after, but as happily as possible | |||||
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Carob Trees, The | ||
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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 | #43224 | |||
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Genre: | American Noh play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Loft, NYC; Edinburgh Festival, London | - - - | ||||
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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 | #43221 | |||
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Genre: | rhymed verse | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Girl has boys, girl loses boys, girl gets boys. Girl (Cherry) has gay boys (Larry, Sandy) on their first trip to Europe. Girl loses boys to girls (Doris and Jean). Girl gets boys back with aid of soldier (Paul). "Altogether delightful . . .Written in bubbling but unobtrusive verse couplets." - B. A. Young, London Financial Times. | |||||
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Chuck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Collision Course, Random House, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43222 | |||
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Genre: | verse One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Chuck is worried that television will kill the written word and he convinces Mrs Wilcox to take a magazine subscription by at first pretending he is not selling magazine subscriptions and then having a dramatic fit. | |||||
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Fun Zone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | - - - | ||||
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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 | #43225 | |||
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June-Moon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in New Theatre for Now, Delta Books, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43223 | |||
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Genre: | verse One Act | |||||
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Love Songs for Two Monsters | ||
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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 | #43228 | |||
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Genre: | song-play | |||||
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Notes: | music by Paul Chihara | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Son-Like | ||
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| 1st Published: | Peer-Southern Publishers, 1740 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43227 | |||
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Genre: | monodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adaptation of Stravinsky's The Soldiers Tale | |||||
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