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Mario Baldessari

MARIO BALDESSARI

  
Nationality:    USA
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Mario Baldessari's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Best Men         Carved in Stone: A Comedy of Terrors         Doubting Thomas         Every Fringe Show You Want To See In One Fringe Show, Fringe Show         Fat Gay Jew         Fear Itself         Good Devil, In Spite of Himself, The         How To Catch A Leprechaun         Jack And the Beanstalk         Look! Up in the Sky!         Monkeyboy II         Sacred Cows         Three Bears         Wonders Never Cease

Best Men

Synopsis:
a comedy about estranged friends who are reunited under unexpected circumstances

Notes:
Written by Mario Baldessari and Chris Stezin. The Kennedy Center hosts its 10th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Genre:
comedy

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Carved in Stone: A Comedy of Terrors

Synopsis:
When his amateur sculpture of the 10 Commandments is ordered to be removed from public property, a fundamentalist Christian turns to Jewish mysticism to continue his fight against the "War on Christianity." The otherworldly golem he creates destroys the tranquility of two small Wyoming towns and his own marriage--by unearthing a family tragedy better left buried.

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Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Doubting Thomas

Synopsis:
Tom has a disease that here is no cure for

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1st Produced:
Theatre On The Run, Arlington, Va    40526

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Comedy

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Every Fringe Show You Want To See In One Fringe Show, Fringe Show

Synopsis:
Everything you would want in a Fringe Theatre play: Gratuitous nudity (partial); screaming; gay stuff; profanity; simulated oral sex and profane chickens

Notes:
Written by Mario Baldessari and Ethan Slater

1st Produced:
Capital Fringe Show, Washington Dc    2013

Organisations:
Just Barely A Theatre Company Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy

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Fat Gay Jew

Synopsis:
Stand aside, and let a fat straight Gentile review Fat Gay Jew, the amiable, intermittently funny Mario Baldessari comedy about gays, Jews, and fat guys. If we are to believe the production's marketing, this play is about prejudice and bigotry, and how it's bad and ridiculous. Stand aside, and let a fat straight Gentile review Fat Gay Jew, the amiable, intermittently funny Mario Baldessari comedy about gays, Jews, and fat guys. If we are to believe the production's marketing, this play is about prejudice and bigotry, and how it's bad and ridiculous. Let me tell you - prejudice and bigotry - it's bad and ridiculous. although perhaps not as ridiculous as it's made to appear in the three sketches which make up this play. In the first, Jim Helein plays a Man of Substance (which is what we fat guys call ourselves) bedeviled by a brother-in-law (Baldessari), who has joined an odd religious cult which has decreed that there is no room in heaven for the zaftig. In the second, Helein plays a gay activist who has concluded that all African Americans are lazy, drug-dealing killers. In the final episode, Renee Calarco is a convert to Judaism who is sufficiently insecure about her credentials as a Jew that she insists that she is more Jewish than everyone, including her co-worker, the former Temple President (Helein).
- Tim Treanor, DC theatre Scene

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Fear Itself

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1st Produced:
Glaser-Luchs Studio Theatre, Washington D C    05 Jan 2007

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Good Devil, In Spite of Himself, The

Synopsis:
Come enjoy the comedic travails of a 17th century commedia troupe besieged by an official decree that forbids them from using dialogue in their plays. the royally imposed restriction sends the comedy troupe on a rollercoaster ride of comic invention as they seek to successfully skirt the dialogue police! Comedy. Recommended for mature audiences.

Notes:
written by Mario Baldessari & Tyler Herman. the Kennedy Center hosts its 12th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

1st Produced:
Kennedy Center, Rehearsal Room #2, Dc    31 Aug 2013

Organisations:
the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts

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How To Catch A Leprechaun

Synopsis:
Riley has everything he needs to catch a leprechaun - but the one he ensnares is much, much bigger than he thought it would be

Notes:
Written by Mario Baldessari and Rex Daugherty

1st Produced:
Page To Stage Festival @ Millennium Stage South, Washington Dc    01 Sep 2012

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Jack And the Beanstalk

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Notes:
Music by Rex Daugherty

1st Produced:
Kennedy Center Family Theater, Washington D C    40425

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Look! Up in the Sky!

Synopsis:
Several new works written by company members focused around the theme of heroism.

Notes:
written by Mario Baldessari and Richard C. Washer. Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Genre:
comedy

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Monkeyboy II

Synopsis:
Monkeyboy II is a continuation of the adventures of Monkeyboy, the cursed cockatoo whose very presence brings terrible personal misfortune. Smarter (and meaner) than your average bird, Monkeyboy erodes people's self-confidence, reveals embarrassing truths about their lives, and spouts insightful profanities and pop songs. Having mysteriously survived abandonment in the Amazon, the bird is back--ready to destroy relationships and a city council campaign. A sequel to Charter Theater's 2005 hit, Monkeyboy. Comedy. Recommended for mature audiences. Sat. at 8 p.m.

Notes:
By Mario Baldessari and Keith Bridges. The Kennedy Center hosts its 11th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Sacred Cows

Synopsis:
What kind of candy do you eat at the crucifixion?

Notes:
Written by Mario Baldessari And Jim Helein

1st Produced:
Glaser-Luchs Studio Theatre, Washington D C    07 Jan 2005

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Genre:
Comedy

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Three Bears

Synopsis:
the classic fairy tale is inventively re-imagined in this brand new musical adventure from the pen of last season's big hit with both kids and parents, Jack and the Beanstalk. It's unbearably good fun that's just right for the whole family. Golden locks have never been as mischievous.

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By Mario Baldessari & Ethan Slater, Music by Ethan Slater, Lyrics by Mario Baldessari

1st Produced:
1St Stage, 1524 Spring Hill Road Mclean, Va    09 Feb 2012

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Genre:
musical

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Wonders Never Cease

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Mario Baldessari, Barry Wood And Jim Helein

1st Produced:
Glaser-Luchs Studio Theatre, Washington D C    10 Mar 2005

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