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Doug DeVita

DOUG DEVITA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Biography Doug DeVita wrote the book for a musical version of Shakespeare's the Tempest, and the book and lyrics for as You Like It for Vital Children's Theatre in New York. a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, his work includes a musical adaptation of Julia Derek's book Confessions of a Serial egg Donor with his "Tempest" collaborator Brian allan Hobbs, Goldiggers Of the 1,2, 4, and Just a Rumor, both written with Gary Lyons, and Complicity. agent: Wayne Scherzer, Roth east & associates

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         As You Like It         BBQ         Checking the Basement for Leaks         Complicity         Confessions Of A Serial Egg Donor         Goddess of the Hunt         Goldiggers Of the 1, 2, 3         Just A Rumor         Lane Bradbury: Let Me Entertain You, Again         Something To Dance About         Tempest, The
As You Like It

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a musical version for children based on the Shakespeare play.

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Book by Doug Devita; Music And Lyrics by Paul Johnson; based on the play by William Shakespeare

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Genre:
Children's musical Youth audience

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BBQ

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Checking the Basement for Leaks

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Complicity

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a play based on the murder of the Duchesse de Praslin in Paris, 1847 at the hands of her husband, the Duke. the resulting scandal was a factor in the Revolution of 1848, but why? Who actually was complicit? the Duke alone? the Governess of his 9 children? the Duchesse herself? the Duchesse's father, the powerful Marechal Sebastiani? the examining judges, who covered up some pertinent information?

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Confessions Of A Serial Egg Donor

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Based on the memoir by Julia Derek, Confessions. . . tells the true and disturbing story of a foreign exchange student in Los Angeles who got so caught up in the tens of thousands of dollars she was making by donating her eggs multiple times that her body shut down, forcing her to re-evaluate her sense of self.

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Music And Lyrics by Brian Allan Hobbs

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Genre:
Musical

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Goddess of the Hunt

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Goldiggers Of the 1, 2, 3

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a Musical Fable of the Subways - what do you do when you are no longer able to make a living doing what you've always done? Do you reinvent yourself, or do you reinvent the work place?

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written by Doug DeVita And Gary Lyons

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Musical/Comedy

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Just A Rumor

Synopsis:
a new fiction based on the Sacred Truths of Old Hollywood, Just a Rumor explores the nature of love, celebrity, gossip, truth, and how to get a dead movie star out of the kitchen.

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written by Doug DeVita And Gary Lyons

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Comedy

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Lane Bradbury: Let Me Entertain You, Again

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Lane Bradbury created the role of Dainty June in the original Broadway production of GYPSY, starring Ethel Merman. In this show, her cabaret debut, she tells of her journey from Atlanta Debutante to performer on the "The Great White Way" during the Golden Age of Broadway

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54 Below. New York, NY 10019     08 May 2015

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Something To Dance About

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Written by Doug DeVita and Gary Lyons

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Tempest, The

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a musical version for children based on the Shakespeare play.

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Genre:
Children's musical Youth audience

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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