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Jack Larson

JACK LARSON  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Lantz Office  


Born in Los Angeles, CA. educated in Los Angeles and Pasadena City College. Writing in verse forms that interested composers, he be-gan collaborations with Virgil Thomson (opera, Lord Byron), Ned Rorem (Song Cycle), Gerhard Samuel (monoDrama, the Relativity of Icarus, now a ballet by the Joffrey Company), and wrote text and scenario for a new ballet for the Joffrey, Orpheus Times Light2, also a Place for Peace with Virgil Thompson. New adaptation of mono-Drama Lelio (Berlioz) premiered at Hollywood Bowl by Los Angeles Philharmonic; new concert adaptation of egmont (Goethe-Beethoven), Los Angeles Music Pavilion and Carnegie Hall. Reci-pient: Rockefeller Foundation Grant; Ford Foun-dation grant; Koussevitzky Grant; commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Philharmonic (for concert adaptation of Dramatic works Lelio and egmont), San Francisco Chamber Symphony (for two monoDramas for chamber orchestra and voice).
address (in 1981): 449 Skyeway Rd., Los Angeles, Ca 90049

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

 Byron         Candied House, The         Carob Trees, The         Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul         Chuck         Fun Zone         June-Moon         Love Songs For Two Monsters         Son-Like

Byron

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Mark Taper Lab, Los Angeles, Ca    -

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adapted from opera libretto adaptation

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Candied House, The

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a mystery play based on Grimm's Hansel and Gretel where the characters do not live happily ever after, but as happily as possible

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Leo S. Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of art    -

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Genre:
rhymed verse

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Carob Trees, The

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American Noh play

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Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul

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Girl has boys, girl loses boys, girl gets boys. Girl (Cherry) has gay boys (Larry, Sandy) on their first trip to europe. Girl loses boys to girls (Doris and Jean). Girl gets boys back with aid of soldier (Paul). "altogether delightful . . .Written in bubbling but unobtrusive verse couplets." - B. a. Young, London Financial Times.

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the Loft, NYC; Edinburgh Festival, London    -

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rhymed verse

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Chuck

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Chuck is worried that television will kill the written word and he convinces Mrs Wilcox to take a magazine subscription by at first pretending he is not selling magazine subscriptions and then having a Dramatic fit.

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Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca    -

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in Collision Course, Random House, NY,    -

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verse One act

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Fun Zone

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Edinburgh Festival    -

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June-Moon

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Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Ca    -

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in New theatre for Now, Delta Books, NY,    -

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Love Songs For Two Monsters

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music by Paul Chihara

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Genre:
song-play

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Son-Like

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adaptation of Stravinsky's the Soldiers Tale

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Peer-Southern Publishers, 1740 Broadway, New York, NY 10019,    -

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Genre:
monoDrama

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