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EVAN RICHARDSON
(1946 - )Nationality: USA
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I have been writing for eighteen years with a body of work that includes 7 screenplays, 2 musicals for which I wrote the music and lyrics, 2 plays, a non-fiction book, and a children's book. I received a B.F.A. degree at University of Kentucky with further studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. My writing training in NYC has been at Marymount Manhattan College, New School University, and playwright studies with the New Dramatists, and with playwright/teacher, Jeffrey Sweet.
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Dr Jekyll and Nurse Hyde GuysDr Jekyll and Nurse Hyde
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In the early 1980s, Carl, a New York City dentist, and his wife, Jenny, move with their young twins to Scarsdale, New York where Carl intends to become the new partner of a dentist there. In the chimney of the old house they have just bought--which turns out to be the house of the dead dentist Carl is there to replace--they find a bottle of mouthwash. When Carl gargles with it, he turns into a nurse who calls herself Formalde Hyde. As Formalde, Carl, in high heels, gets into a fight at a bowling alley and receives a black eye. Distraught and unaware of Carl gargling with the mouthwash, Jenny is unable to get Formalde to go away. She solicits help from their next-door neighbors: Charlotte, who has been friends with Jenny since they were sorority sisters in college, and Herman, Charlotte's milk-toast husband and a psychiatrist. Jenny tells Charlotte that she and Carl have been trying to have another child but giving birth to twins has made it difficult. She confesses that she and Carl have not had sex in a long time and wonders if all of this has contributed to Carl's strange behavior. After drinks at Carl's and Jenny's house, during which Formalde chases all of them around with a rectal thermometer and no one can figure why Carl is acting the way he is, Charlotte and Herman plan to go to a gay liberation dance. Desperate and afraid to be left alone with Carl as Nurse Hyde, Jenny persuades Charlotte to let Carl and her come along, much against Charlotte's better judgment. At the dance they meet Rodney, a gay man who thinks Jenny can turn him straight, and Mildred, a black transsexual who now likes girls. Perceiving Carl as a girl, Mildred sets her sights on Formalde, while Jenny is eyed by Rodney. A drawing is held and Formalde wins it, which turns out to be a large, pink rabbit that can get an erection, which ends Act 1. After an all-night party at Carl's and Jenny's house, complete with Charlotte, Herman, Rodney, Mildred and the rabbit, which leaves all of them frazzled, Jenny is more desperate than ever to get rid of Carl's bizarre behavior. Charlotte tells her that Herman, too, has been acting strangely. That morning she had found him asleep in his study wearing her lavender, marabou bed-jacket. When Herman appears later in the bed-jacket, he tells Carl that he has shown him the way to a new masculinity by being man enough to wear women's clothes. Carl has no idea what Herman is talking about and is even appalled. He quickly becomes Nurse Hyde to cope with it as Mildred arrives and they all get into a fight that Jenny and Charlotte have to break up. When Jenny can't get an answer from Carl as to why he is behaving as Nurse Hyde, she prepares to go to her mother's where they have left their twins while they moved. She and Carl, as Formalde, get into a scuffle during which Formalde seduces her. the next morning Jenny is a changed woman and confesses to Charlotte that she is in love with a woman who is her husband. This is too much for Charlotte who now has to deal with Herman who is asserting his independence by involving himself with Mildred. Jenny still has her problems with Rodney who believes he is in love with her. This causes a riff between her and Carl who accuses her of infidelity. the agent who had sold them the house, Mrs. Biddle, shows up just as Jenny is about to leave Carl for the second time. Mrs. Biddle tells Jenny that Carl is not the only owner of the house that began to act strangely. She tells her that the old dentist who owned the place, whom Carl is there to replace, was an inventor of crazy mixtures. Jenny puts it together and concludes that Carl's nutty behavior must be due to the mouthwash he has been gargling. She throws the bottle into the fireplace and breaks it, which infuriates Carl because he had been planning on manufacturing it. Jenny is content, however, because she believes she has gotten rid of the problem. But the story has one last twist before the couple is finally back to blissful matrimony.
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Logline: A dentist moves from New York City with his wife And two kids to A small community in the suburbs where he discovers in the chimney of the old house they have just bought A mouthwash that turns him into A nurse named Formalde Hyde.
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Synopsis:
On a tropical vacation island a gang of thugs, escaped convicts (but more like the 3 Stooges), are hiding out in a gay bar working as go-go dancers while they wait for a shipment of cocaine that they intend to smuggle off the island for the town's corrupt mayor, a large black woman. She wants the waterfront bar where the gang performs nightly in sexy costumes because it is situated on the water where her drug shipments would be more easily accessible. She has done everything to close the bar down but so far has only succeeded in making it lose money. To save his floundering bar from the hands of the mayor, Guy, the owner, advertises for a professional dancer to join his group of amateurs and when the man arrives he turns out to be Guy's old lover, a onetime hustler, who disappeared 15 years ago. the man is a great success in the male act but Guy's teenage daughter is angered when she discoveries that her Father had had a previous affair with a man. Recognizing he is causing a rift between Guy and his daughter, the man makes plans to leave the island but the mayor, now intending to use the man to smuggle out her drugs, detains him by finding an excuse to throw him in jail. Angered by Guy's continued interest in the man and encouraged by the mayor, Guy's daughter retaliates by performing a bawdy act of her own in a rival bar. This prompts Guy to restrict her activities and kick out both his old lover and his daughter's would-be boyfriend, the bartender of the bar whom Guy now suspects are part of the mayor's drug racket. In the meantime, the mayor has reasons to suspect that Guy's old lover is not the dancer he claims to be but rather a C.I.A. agent. Intending to do away with him, the mayor kidnaps him but is prevented from doing him in by a tropical storm that wreaks havoc on the island. the atmosphere of the one set, multiracial bar is sexy with raw, tropical color. the music is up-beat bawdy, jazz, blues, and tropical, with love songs that are melodious and hauntingly romantic. the entire production can be described as exotic, erotic, and romantic. Although GUYS is a wild, nutty, musical romp, the story is a mystery trying to uncover the drug lord of the source of the drugs while discussing poverty, prejudice, greed, injustice, and the under-life of society, woven together with a love story of two men struggling to rekindle their love after years of separation and misunderstanding. the show is as poignant and timely as it is entertaining.
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Music And lyrics by Evan Richardson. GUYS has had 5 staged readings presented in New York City by the National Music theatre Network And the Genesis Guild. For A preview of GUYS, the synopsis, 10 songs from the show And the first 18 pages of the script Are posted At: www.myspace.com/evanlymusic Along with A video.
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