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Jacob Jacobs

JACOB JACOBS

  (1890 - 1997)
Nationality:    USA
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Jacob Jacobs's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Another Horatio Alger Story         Good Luck         Horatio's Rise         President's Daughter, The

Another Horatio Alger Story

Synopsis:
A teacher introduces his impressionable students to the works of Horatio Alger

Notes:
Metropolitan Playhouse hosts the Horatio Alger Festival, the theater's seventh annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of American authors. the Festival is a collection of five new works by artists and companies from near and far taking their inspiration from Alger's works and biography. the Horatio Alger Festival includes one-act and full-length plays, ranging from adaptation to biographical fantasy, all inspired by Alger and his work. Alger's legacy as the man who made the rags to riches story an American staple, is familiar to all; less well known are his actual stories, and the story of his own life, with inspirational and nefarious twists of its own. Together, these very different plays by singular contemporary theater voices will bring the author's work to a new audience, explore the persistent resonance of his themes in our own culture (for good and ill), and delve into the darker side of both the Alger myth and Alger the man.
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:
9th Space theater
150 1st avenue, New York, NY 10003    16 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Metropolitan Playhouse

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Music:
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Good Luck

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Sholom Secunda; lyrics by Jacob Jacobs; book by Louis Freiman; Chaim Tauber

1st Produced:
Anderson Yiddish Theatre, New York    17 Oct 1964

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Musical

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Horatio's Rise

Synopsis:
This is a special preview of a new work from theatre askew that examines the life of America's oft-cited but little-known success story, Horatio alger. the latest in theatre askew's works-in-progress production program, Horatio's Rise continues the company's ongoing exploration of the intersections of queer culture with New York City history. This work reexamines the American myth of success by looking at the life and present-day influence of the man whose name and stories have become synonymous with the American ideal of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. after John, an inner-city high school teacher, catches one of his most promising students, alberto, plagiarizing an American Lit term paper, he takes it upon himself to instill positive values in the young man by exposing him to the life and work of the Victorian boys' novelist, Horatio alger. Under threat of expulsion, alberto reluctantly begins reading alger's most famous book, Ragged Dick, which comes to theatrical life before his eyes imbued with askew's characteristic blend of camp theatricality and emotional honesty. Gradually, alger's own fraught history with adolescent boys is revealed, and painful truths overwhelm the pleasures of fiction. examining the delicate territory of a teacher/student relationship characterized by both eroticized control and a genuine desire to help a struggling teen, Horatio's Rise asks what ultimately constitutes a "success story" and who gets to tell it.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011    40513

Organisations:
Theater askew

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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President's Daughter, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Murray Rumshinsky; lyrics by Jacob Jacobs; book by H Kalmanov

1st Produced:
Billy Rose Theater, New York    1970

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Genre:
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