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Balancing Act
Synopsis:
At 55 Judith is preparing for her wedding. She and her sister Stacey have kept a secret from Judith's grown children which if it comes out will ruin the wedding
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Rehearsed reading at The Lounge Theatre, Los Angeles
09 Apr 2016
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One act
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Bush House
Synopsis:
Mattie a 75 year old foster parent has a recurrent nightmare about a cheetah. She was attacked by one as a child when she lived in Africa. Now in New York with her two adopted children and grand daughter. Her son has come out as trans-gendered. The daught
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Rehearsed reading at Fierce Backbone, Los Angeles
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Drama
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Canteen
Synopsis:
Four Women working at the Stage Door Canteen looking after servicemen in World War Two
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Music and lyrcs original 1930s/1940s; book Larry Gene Fortin
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2003
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Musical
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Cotton Club, The
Synopsis:
Owney Madden owner of the Cotton Club hires Sam to follow and protect his girlfriend, Cora. Sam and Cora fall in love
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Music and lyrcs original 1920s/1930s; book Larry Gene Fortin
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Musical
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Elizabeth For President
Synopsis:
Queen Elizabeth expresses an interest in running for the US presidency
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Ten minute play
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Emma
Synopsis:
Henry has been trying to complete a play for eleven years. It is set in the 1960s. Suddenly his characters come to life
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Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Holiday
Synopsis:
The life of Billie Holiday
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Music - songs orginally recorded by Billie Holiday; book by Larry Gene Fortin
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Musical
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Lost In The Snow
Synopsis:
Marvin a drag queen known as Mona Lisa is drowning in a world of drugs
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Rehearsed reading at Fierce Backbone, Los Angeles
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Ridin' High
Synopsis:
Luis boards a train to anywhere to begin the end of his life. Alice boards the same train running away from her life. The train breaks down in a remote desert town. Divine intervention gives them the power to move on with their separate lives
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Music and lyrics by Luis Oilart, book by larry gene Fortin
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Road To Baby Jane, The
Synopsis:
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are rehearsing "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" They battle with each other and terrorise the director and crew
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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Strange Town: Seasoned Friends
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Two eighty something sisters discuss how they are going to save their town
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Sundown In Beaver Creek
Synopsis:
In an Oklahoma sheriff's chaos reigns. An Afro-American woman arrives - the sheriff was accused of raping her when he was 18 and that was thirty years ago. Meanwhile the two deputies are fighting over their sexual identities
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Rehearsed reading at Fierce Backbone, Los Angeles
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Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: -
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Terminal Station
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A mother and daughter on their way to the airport to catch a plane to a funeral - but will either of them make it?
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Ten minute play
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Toots' Suite
Synopsis:
Sharon "Toots" Lane an ageing actress has just married a toy boy. On the honeymoon she is on the balcony of her hotel room when the love of her life walks out on the one next door
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Rehearsed reading at Fierce Backbone, Los Angeles
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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We Will Survive
Synopsis:
Every year four women friends meet on the anniversary of the death of a friend to cheer each other on
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Genre:
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