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JOSHUA WILLIAM GELB
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Joshua William Gelb is a New York City based playwright and director. He is a 2005 graduate of New York Universitys Tisch School of the arts, where he was honored for his artistic excellence at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Mr. Gelbs plays include Tully, in no particular order (Music and Lyrics by Stephanie Johnstone), Something More Pleasant (conceived by Brittany ONeill), The More Learned Fool, Platitudes, Bour IV, Lulu.com, Water Music, The Book of Immolitus, and Beginning with Infinity. His plays have been performed at the 2006 NYC Fringe Festival, the 2005 hotINK Festival, Theater for the New City, The Producers Club, Manhattan Theatre Source, Primary Stages, The Hartford Childrens Theatre, The Linhart Theatre, New York University, and Boston University. His past directing credits include Leonce und Lena (Room5001), Three Mystery Plays from the York Pageant Cycle (NYU Tisch), Truculentus (no theatre company&), The Odyssey (no theatre company&), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Hartford Childrens Theatre), and George M! (French Woods Festival of the Performing arts).
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Black Crook, The Blind Alley Guy: Notes For An Unfinished Play By Eugene ONeill Something More PleasantBlack Crook, The
Synopsis:
This is a revival of The Black Crook, an original magical and spectacular drama in which will also be played the tragic history of its author, Charles M. Barras. The Black Crook was originally performed at Niblo's Garden in 1866, and is generally regarded as the first american musical. This production will mark The Black Crook's first appearance on a New York stage since 1896. This new adaptation merges "the Great White Myth" of The Black Crook's first production with the infamous melodrama itself in this re-imagining of the show. It is conceived, adapted, and directed by Joshua William Gelb, from material by Charles M. Barras, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, & Christopher Marlowe.
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adapted And conceived by Joshua William Gelb
1st Produced:
Independent Theatre, NY 2007
Organisations:
Room5001 Theatre
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adaptation Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: 8 performers
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Top of PageBlind Alley Guy: Notes For An Unfinished Play By Eugene ONeill
Synopsis:
a sociopathic gangster goes to the electric chair in the last play Eugene O'Neill ever attempted (and failed) to write. Exactly two months after completing what would come to be considered his masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill conceived of a new drama about a gangster sentenced to death in the electric chair. For two years he developed this idea, drafting pages of handwritten notes. By then it was 1943 and O'Neill, at 55 years old, was beset by tremors in his hand so terrible he couldn't even hold a pencil. He abandoned writing in June of that year, ten years before his death. Blind alley Guy would be the last play he would ever attempt. Blind alley Guy: Notes for Unfinished Play by Eugene O'Neill is highly physical, mashing clowning in the manner of Chaplin with the brooding tragic style of O'Neill's great work. Trapped in a cycle of varying edits and re-writes, the White Family is portrayed as frantic puppets of an unseen and obviously uncertain creator, hysterically reenacting moments of their story as they hurtle in no particular direction toward utter devastation.
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by Eugene O'Neill; Arranged by Kevin Mullins. Conceived And Directed By: Joshua William Gelb
1st Produced:
Incubator arts Project
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 23 Jun 2011
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 23 Jun 2011
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageSomething More Pleasant
Synopsis:
Take 2 abandoned Children. add a Vicious Curse. Marinate in a Troubled Kingdom with a healthy dollop of Grimm Gore. Boil in Ominous Woods for approximately 90 minutes. Enjoy your Something More Pleasant.
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written by Joshua William Gelb And Stephanie Johnstone
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Room5001 Theatre
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Comedy, 95 min
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