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Steve Saari

STEVE SAARI  

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I have been the executive director of a community theatre, the administrator for a school of fine arts, and have been active in theatre in general as an actor, director, playwright, and composer for over twenty years. My plays have had successful productions in midwestern regional theaters during the last fifteen years. Those plays produced are three comedies (Reunited We Fall, Totally Necessary Men, and Mere Image), a Drama, Ruby Lips above the Water, and a musical, When Love Was You. I am currently completing the score to an original musical (book and music) entitled Playing the Bill about a group of individuals struggling to survive as performers in a vaudeville house under the cloud of the 1929 Wall Street crash and the revolutionary influence of motion pictures.

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

 Mere Image         Ruby Lips above the Water         Totally Necessary Men

Mere Image

Synopsis:
Mere Image is a comedy of complications concerning an eminent cosmetic surgeon, his tippling ex-cabaret singer wife, his histrionic daughter, his two wise and worldly sons, a pugnacious maid, and a high profile client intent on retaining her sex-bomb status at any price. Compromising photographs, a missing briefcase, and improbable art world imposters are destined to be exposed in the premiere issue of a scandal-soaked sleaze rag. The farcical situations illustrate the lengths people go for the sake of "mere image".

Notes:
One of the male roles is written for A young man Age 12-14.

1st Produced:
Fire Hall Theatre, Grand Forks, ND    2004

Organisations:
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre, Grand Forks, ND

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Ruby Lips above the Water

Synopsis:
Ruby Lips above the Water is the story of a young, developmentally disabled woman and her sheltered existence in a rural Minnesota town. Surrounded and protected by four well-meaning women: her mother, her two godmothers, and the local cafe owner; Ruby is insulated from life and finds no one is capable of coping with her dreams and unexpressed yearnings. The women find within the intimate and intricate lifetime relationship they share a common thread of suppressed desire and longing for what was and what might have been had life dictated a different path. Ruby's path during the course of the play is one of uncertain self-discovery as she copes with a mother unwilling to let her mature, a private inner world of idealized notions of adulthood, romance, and family, and the harsh reality of untold truths, life set adrift from security, and the cruel sacrifice of sexual innocence. Through it all, Ruby endures, and her story is ultimately one of triumph.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Paul Bunyan Playhouse, Bemidji, MN    2008

Organisations:
North of Two Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Totally Necessary Men

Synopsis:
Totally Necessary Men is an off-the-wall comedy about a shy, under-achieving office worker whose life is thrown into chaos due to the unexpected arrival of his meddlesome, aging aunt at his modest apartment. Other arrivals following in quick succession include the aunt's irascible husband, a gone-but-not-forgotten girlfriend and her insanely jealous partner, and a scheming co-worker whose interests encompass not only the office but also the bedroom. The comedy features slapstick and verbal acrobatics that enflame circumstances; engulfing a hapless man-child who finds his life reduced to baffling pandemonium.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Fire Hall Theatre, Grand Forks, ND    2000

Organisations:
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre, Grand Forks, ND

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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