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Tom Sharkey

TOM SHARKEY  

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TOM SHARKEY (author-composer-lyricist-producer) began his career at the age of 19 as a writer-editor for the Chicago Magazine and published two books before graduating from Chicago State University. He was Playwright-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; a winner of Golden Camera and Silver Screen awards for his industrial movies; and a special material writer for many celebrities. He developed Sharkey Shows for Hershey Park, Six Flags Over Texas, and the Las Vegas Strip. Tom's plays (more than a dozen) have been enjoyed by audiences around the world and honored for their creativity. Dreams garnered three Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best New Play, and subsequently moved to the New Vic Theater in New York City; Just Say Yes was selected best play of the year by the Evanston Drama Club; and Together Again received a Long Beach Playhouse 2005 Annual New Works Festival Prize. Tom's diverse interests and talents are showcased in his plays. Two one-person shows offer entertaining character studies: St. Jane, the story of Jane Addams that has toured throughout Illinois, and A Small Eternity With Jack Benny, which had several large west coast productions. Political themes are highlighted in the comedy All of the People All of the Time and the drama The Nixon Tapes, which played concurrently with the last days of the Nixon presidency. Romantic comedy delights audiences in My Heart Reminds Me and Amy's Wish. Tom's love of music shines in his musical, Cinderella Brown, which had a lengthy run at the Forum Theater in Chicago and in the Virgin Islands; and in It's A Wonderful Life, the musical stage version of the Frank Capra film, which never fails to charm theatergoers each holiday season.

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 All of the People All of the Time         Amy's Wish         Cinderella Brown         Dreams         It's A Wonderful Life         Just Say Yes!         My Heart Reminds Me         Nixon Tapes, The         Small Eternity With Jack Benny, A         St Jane         Together Again

All of the People All of the Time

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Amy's Wish

Tom Sharkey
Recently retired and newly wed, Sam Galway, if falbbergasted when the spring water at his honeymoon retreat transforms dear old Amy into a 19-year-old knockout. His "young" bride attracts a youthful admirer while the sheriff becomes convinced the Sam has murdered Amy

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Gaslight Dinner Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee    -

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Samuel French, NY   978-0573630002

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Full Length Play, Comedy

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Cinderella Brown

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Dreams

Tom Sharkey
In Dreams, two very unlike individuals become aware of each other and eventually come to fear each other by means of their very real nightmares and daydreams. A young lawyer awakens in terror and dread. He had been in an abandoned building; a sadistic policeman was beating him, demanding to know where he had hidden the stolen drugs. The woman at his side, who says she is his wife, the mother of his two children, comforts him. She says, "It was just a dream". A moment later, a young drug addict awakens in throbbing pain. His wounds from a beating are being tended to by a man who says he is a friend. The drug addict tells him about the woman and the two children. The friend says, "It was just a dream."

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Winner! 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award, Best New Work

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It's A Wonderful Life

Tom Sharkey
It's A Wonderful Life is a musical adaptation of Frank Capra's Christmas classic masterpiece film. This is the sage of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been squashed by family obligations and civic duty, and whose gurdian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair, and to remind him - by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born - that he has had after all, a wonderful life.

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Music, lyrics And book by Thomas Sharkey. Based on the film "It's A Wonderful Life" screenplay by Frank Capra, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett And Jo Swerling

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Howard Cobbs' Gaslight Dinner Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee    1987

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Samuel French Inc, New York   978-0573691294

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Just Say Yes!

Tom Sharkey
Needing to prove his theories work, an author of books on success through self confidence picks the world's biggest loser and makes him a winner nearly losing everything to him in the process.

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written by Jack And Tom Sharkey. Just Say Yes! was originally titled The Confidence Game when first presented at Playwright's Center in Chicago, IL. The play subsequently moved to Drury Lane South Theater in Evergreen Park, IL. The play was first presented under its new title by Just Off Broadway and the TBA Players in Kansas, City, MO.

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Playwright's Center in Chicago, IL (as The Confidence Game)    -

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My Heart Reminds Me

Tom Sharkey
A fast, funny, frolic in the parlor of a New England publisher. Caught up in this summer weekend folly are the publisher in middle-age crisis, his faithful wife of twenty-five years and his zany, naive but willing secretary. This romatic comedy gets complicated by the arrival of three strange guests - a celebrated Swiss biologist, a flamboyant actress and her first and third husband who claims to be the world's greatest Bulgarian actor. This uproarious, fast moving comedy of marital near infidelity defies easy classification in that it actually has six continuing characters but they are played by only one man and one woma

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Playwright Center in Chicago, Illinois    -

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Samuel French, NY, 1977   978-0573612879

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Nixon Tapes, The

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Small Eternity With Jack Benny, A

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St Jane

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the story of Jane Addams that has toured throughout Illinois

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Together Again

Tom Sharkey
This is a love story that spans the years of a troubling and stormy relationship. This play offers a fascinating glimpse of the trials, trivialities, and triumphs of love without compromise. You'll laugh and cry as these lovers win their way into your heart. You may even recognize someone you love in Together Again. Together Again spans a touching and stormy relationship through three reunions. When Chrissie and Joe meet, something both dreadful and wonderful occurs. The story begins in the apartment of an aspiring young actress. Chrissie, an acting student, is about to host her acting class' fi fth reunion, when her hero, Joe, a rising young Hollywood star, arrives an hour too soon. Ten years later, at the fi fteenth reunion party, Chrissie is still studying drama, while Joe has won an Academy Award. The third reunion, ten years later, finds them together yet again in the hours before the reunion party. She is now a successful stage actress, he a recovering Alcoholic. Together Again is a romantic comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the trials, trivialities, and triumphs of love without compromise.

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subsequently moved Rustic Barn Dinner Theatre in Bloomington, IL

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Full Length Play, Comedy

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