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WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS
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Victoria Bryan , Don Lafoon, Ron Creager Produced by STOP-GAP, a drama therapy troupe based in Orange County, CA, When The Bough Breaks... is based on true stories collected from workshops at the Orange County shelter for abused and neglected children. Through the main character, Liz, we follow her journey from being a ‘victim’ to becoming a 'survivor’ of incest.
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SHADOW AND SONG Top
Book: John Weston This is a new script to accompany most of the original music from When the Bough Breaks... (some new numbers have been added) and was first presented in 1989 at The South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California. Produced by STOP-GAP and starred Sharon Murray (Harrah)
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THE BUTTERFLY Top
Book: Bijan Mofid The Butterfly is Mofid’s English adaptation and expansion of his very popular Persian play, Shaparak Khanoom. The play follows a young butterfly (Bonnie Ebsen) as she encounters odd, hysterical and sometimes dangerous characters lurking in the dark barn in which she is trapped. Through these life changing circumstances, she finally finds her way to the ‘light’ she has so desperately been seeking. Cast: Bonnie Ebsen
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MADONNA AND CHILD Top
Book and Lyrics: Tony Sheldon Written by Tony Sheldon for himself and his mother, Toni Lamond, and to accompany and cover costume changes, I was the third member of the cast. Madonna and Child had a successful run at the Off Broadway Theatre in Sydney and later a two week run in Melbourne at the Victoria Arts Centre. The following year a revised version was presented by New Moon Productions in a Queensland tour under the new title, Return Engagement.
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CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU Top
Book and Lyrics: David Sale
CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU was a best-selling novel by New York-based Australian writer Sumner Locke Elliott. It became one of the ground-breaking Australian movies of the 1980's. Then, composer RON CREAGER (music) and DAVID SALE (book and lyrics) turned the property Into a stage musical which had its world premiere in Canberra in October 1999 with a Pro-Am company led by Australian show-biz icon Toni Lamond. On that occasion, legendary Broadway director/ producer HAROLD PRINCE, a longtime supporter of the project, said: "I've spent a lot of time in Australia, and I kept wondering why an original indigenous musical hadn't emerged. CAREFUL could be the one. I'd love to see how it fares, because I think this is a worthy project, adapted expertly from Sumner's novel." It fared well. Audiences - and critics - loved it. CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU is set in Sydney, 1935. It's the story of two sisters fighting over custody of a little boy, the son of a third sister who died giving birth to him. Lila and her husband George have cared for the boy since he was born. Now, Vanessa, a West End musical comedy star, has ditched her career for reasons of her own to return to Australia and claim the boy - called PS by his mother as the post-script to her life. Vanessa's presence and claim to part-custody of PS chills the homely Lila even in the midst of a hot Australian summer......hence, A Winter Kind of Summer.
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| TANGLED WEBB'S Top
Book and lyrics: Gary Brumburgh
The ever-entwining saga of the Webb family… their friends, their foes and their fate. Tangled Webb’s is light-hearted soap opera, a wacky musical comedy pushed to high limits, an irreverent spoof of all the shows we’ve seen on daytime TV: All My Children, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful. |
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AIMEE (work in progress)
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Book and Lyrics: Tina Tessina A woman falls in love with God and discovers she is unable to successfully love anyone else. A gospel-inspired musical based on the life of flamboyant California evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson. The show begins in Aimee’s early 20’s with her rise from a hand-to-mouth itinerant tent-show preaching circuit existence and follows her cross-country from Florida to California. We see Aimee’s career expand until she builds the spectacular Angeles Temple in Los Angeles and becomes an international personality on radio and newsreels as well as crusading throughout America, Europe and China. Aimee becomes involved in the still never solved mystery of her apparent drowning, only to turn up two weeks later saying she had been abducted. Was she kidnapped or did she run off with her handsome radio announcer? Furthering the drama, Aimee is engaged with a love/hate relationship with her mother. They begin as partners and end as rivals. Through all her personal turmoil, however, Aimee repeatedly returns to her call to preach the Gospel. Since her death and spectacular funeral at the Temple, she remains a fascination public leader whose charisma and influence mesmerizes thousands.
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