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Mark Saltzman

MARK SALTZMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Mark Saltzman began his career in NY with Jim Henson, writing for the Muppets. His Sesame Street sketches and songs (including "Caribbean Amphibian") earned him seven Emmy Awards. But behind Kermit's back, Mark was writing cabaret shows and musicals that played at the Ballroom, Soho Rep, 13th Street Theatre, and the Village Gate, where he co-wrote the long-running revue, A, My Name is Alice. For network television, Mark wrote Mrs. Santa Claus, the holiday musical starring Angela Lansbury with songs by Jerry Herman. For the movies, he wrote the Adventures of Milo and Otis and Three Ninjas Kick Back. His TV movie, the Red Sneakers, directed by and starring Gregory Hines, aired on Showtime in 2004 and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. In 2007, Mark served as writer-producer of the Disney ChAnnel TV show Johnny and the Sprites. His produced plays include Clutter, Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood, Setup & Punch, the musical Romeo and Bernadette and the Tin Pan Alley Rag, which was produced in New York by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

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below is a list of Mark Saltzman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Clutter: the True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out         Mr Shaw Goes To Hollywood         Rocket City, Alabam'         Romeo and Bernadette         Setup & Punch         Tin Pan Alley Rag, The

Clutter: the True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out

Synopsis:
What exactly happened in that Fifth Avenue mansion? This darkly fascinating true story is a murder mystery about the reclusive Collyer Brothers who weren't just rich, they were filthy rich. Langley Collyer is dead in his room. Homer Collyer is missing. And all of New York is shocked at what the police find inside the home of these two wealthy brothers: Junk, trash, clutter - crammed everywhere, piled up to the ceilings. What turned these old-money aristocrats into compulsively hoarding shut-ins? Who killed Langley Collyer? Where's Homer? And what does their relentless obsession reveal about their lives - and souls?

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1st Produced:
Colony Theater, Burbank     2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mr Shaw Goes To Hollywood

Synopsis:
A comic account of George Bernard Shaw's real-life 1933 visit to Hollywood. the esteemed Irish playwright and essayist, in his mid-seventies, has a true California adventure, experiencing everything from an emergency landing on Malibu Beach to tours of MGM back lots and bungalows to luncheons with the A-list luminaries of Tinseltown, all the while lashing out with his sharp wit and wisdom.

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1st Produced:
Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, Ca     2003

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rocket City, Alabam'

Rocket City, Alabam'
Based on the true story of Wernher Von Braun and his recruitment by the US Government to work on the U.S. Missile Program, where he eventually developed the Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo Program. Rocket City, Alabam' weaves Von Braun's real life in Huntsville, Alabama with a fictional plot in which a Jewish woman in Huntsville becomes aware of Von Braun's Nazi past and tries to inspire awareness and outrage among Huntsville's long-established Jewish community and the country at large.

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This play with music includes several Southern gospel And blues songs, including "This Little Light of Mine," "Down by the Riverside," "Alabama Bound," And others.

1st Produced:
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, As Rocket City     24/2008

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Genre:
Play with songs

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

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Romeo and Bernadette

Synopsis:
As it turns out, Romeo didn't die when he drank the poison at the end of Romeo and Juliet because he didn't drink poison at all; just a sleeping potion that knocked him out for a few centuries. And when Romeo awakens, he finds himself in 1960 Brooklyn, chasing a girl he believes is his beloved Juliet. But no, it's not Juliet-it's Bernadette, the beautiful, sassy daughter of a local mobster. Unlike Shakespeare's account of the tale, Romeo and Bernadette barrels along with dames, dons, and dizzy comedy to a happy ending, accompanied by some of the world's most recognizable Italian melodies, famous from movies, television, and many, many pizzerias.

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Book And lyrics by Mark Saltzman with music Adapted from classic Italian melodies by Bruce W. Coyle

1st Produced:
Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, Fl/Papermill Playhouse, Millburn, Nj     2003

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Setup & Punch

Synopsis:
Setup & Punch tells the story of Brian and Vanya, a songwriting team, and how their relationship is blown to bits when they collaborate with a sex-god singer from a cutting-edge rock band. This comic play explores love, loss, betrayal and all the other complicated dynamics associated with writing teams.

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Features four original songs by Berton Averre And Rob Meurer.

1st Produced:
Blank Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca     2009

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Genre:
Play with songs

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tin Pan Alley Rag, The

Synopsis:
the Tin Pan Alley Rag tells the story of an imagined meeting of two of America's greatest musicians, composer Scott Joplin and songwriter Irving Berlin. Joplin was a musical prodigy, born the son of a slave, who received a conservatory education and slowly rose to acclaim. Berlin was a Russian Jewish immigrant who couldn't read music, yet catapulted to stardom at the age of 23. Both men changed the landscape of music forever with their contributions to the first American musical genre, ragtime. Beneath Joplin and Berlin's toe-tapping, syncopated rhythms lay fascinating stories of fame, love and loss. In the Tin Pan Alley Rag, these tales come to vivid life and two great icons realize they have more in common than they ever suspected. the score for the Tin Pan Alley Rag includes such classic songs as Irving Berlin's "I Love a Piano," "Play a Simple Melody," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" and "the Entertainer," among others

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book by Mark Saltzman; music And lyrics by Irving Berlin And Scott Joplin

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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