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Jonathan Bolt

JONATHAN BOLT  (1935 - )

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Jonathan Bolt is a writer, director and actor. He made his professional acting debut in the original Broadway production of Look Homeward, Angel and has since appeared on and off-Broadway, on television and in films. In additional, he has worked extensively at major regional theaters across the country, playing leading roles in more than 100 productions and directing over 30, including premieres by Arthur Miller, Edward Bond, and Paul Zindel. Since 2005, he has been the principal director of The Academy Company, the perfomance arm of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and head of its third year production company.

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

 Dancing In The Dark         Eleanor - The Musical         Eye And The Hands Of God         Glimmerglass         Oh! Dubrovnik!         Plotline         Prince And The Pauper, The         Threads         To Culebra

Dancing In The Dark

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1st Produced:
Mary Macarthur Theatre @ The American academy of Dramatic arts, NY    2006

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American Academy Company '07

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Eleanor - The Musical

Eleanor - The Musical
eleanor Roosevelt from a shy young girl to First Lady

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Music by Thomas Tierney; lyrics by John Forster; book by Jonathan Bolt. represented by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Library

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Village Theatre, Issaquah, Wa    32021

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Original Washington D.C. cast recording: ValKill Productions (VK2001) 1999

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Musical

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Eye And The Hands Of God

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Fordham University    1980

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Glimmerglass

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Suggested by the characters and events in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, this epic adventure follows Natty Bumppo, Harry March, and the Indian Chingachgook through 50 years of early American history. as the American wilderness retreats westward, the friendship among the three men disintegrates, for Natty and Chingachgook resist colonisation while Harry profits from it

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Music by Douglas J Cohen; lyrics by Ted Drachtman; book by Jonathan Bolt

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  12            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Oh! Dubrovnik!

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Comedy

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Plotline

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Pioneer Square Theatre, Seattle    1985

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Prince And The Pauper, The

Synopsis:
When a Prince and a commoner meet

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Based on the book by Mark Twain

1st Produced:
South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California    39122

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adaptation

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Threads

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Returning to the grubby North Carolina mill town in which he had grown up, a would-be Hollywood actor, Clyde Owens, rejoins his younger brother, his estranged father, and his frail, sensitive mother, who is dying of cancer. Lionized by his old friends, most of whom now work at the mill, he is treated like a celebrity-although the truth is that his acting career has long since reached a dead end. When Clyde announces that he plans to stay on and take a job at the mill old tensions re-emerge-the disappointment of the mother, who had dreamed of a better life for her son; and the bitterness which Clyde feels toward his mill-hand father, whose coarseness contrasts painfully with the artistic pretensions of his mother. Her death brings the play to its moving climax, in which father and son, if not reconciled, come to a compassionate understanding of their differences and an acceptance of the need to follow their separate paths in life.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Play/Drama

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To Culebra

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Told from the standpoint of Charles de Lesseps, the loyal, steadfast son of Ferdinand de Lesseps' first marriage, the action of the play shifts back and forth between the courtroom where de Lesseps and his associates are on trial for fraud and mismanagement and scenes of the events and missteps which led to their disastrous decision to attempt construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. an honored hero for his miraculous accomplishment in building the Suez Canal, de Lesseps has married a young wife and is happily tending his estate and siring a second family. already over seventy, his friends and family are wary when he is approached about undertaking another monumental project, particularly in view of early reports about rampant disease and the debilitating climate of the Central American jungle. But, convinced that his powers are sufficient, de Lesseps takes on the task, despite his need to delegate much of the preliminary fact-finding to younger and less able men and the raising of capital to uns

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Published by Gibbs-Smith Publisher (Peregrine Plays) and represented by Dramatists Play Service, Inc,    -

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Genre:
Two acts Play/Drama

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Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

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