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KEN STONE
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: The Gage Group
Ken Stone, bookwriter and lyricist, is a UCLA Theater graduate, a long-time member of the Academy for New Musical Theatre, the Dramatists Guild, and ASCAP, and the winner of numerous ASCAP Special Awards. In 2005, Ken won the prestigious Kleban Award for most promising librettist. During a more than 20-year collaboration with composer Jan Powell, Ken has written shows that have been performed at La MiRADA Civic Light Opera, Theatre Building Chicago, Los Angeles Theatre Center, the North Shore Music Theatre, TheaterWorks, the Powerhouse, the Victory Theatre, the Antaeus Company, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Powell & Stone's works have been supported by the Frederick Lowe Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Tuners Theatre, and the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Awards include a Jefferson Citation nomination for new work, an award from the Columbia Entertainment Company, the grand prize of the American Musical Theatre Festival, and an Ovation Award nomination. In addition to his own works, Ken has contributed lyrics and lyric translations to Legal Briefs, Rosie's, Mother Courage and Her Children, the Threepenny Opera, the New Normal, A Sensible Girl, and A.A. Milne and John Achorn's the Ugly Duckling.
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below is a list of Ken Stone's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
American Tales King of the Cowboys OverlandAmerican Tales
Act I, the Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton, is from Mark Twain's story of two people falling in love at a great distance with the aid of that brand-new invention, the telephone. Alonzo in Maine and Rosannah in California meet by the accident of crossed wires and each falls in love with an imagined ideal of the other. So complete is their self-deception that even when brought face to face they cannot recognize each other. Love is found, lost, and found again. Played as period meloDrama, but the relevance to 21st century dating habits is clear. Act II, Bartleby, the Scrivener, is Dramatized from Herman Melville's slyly funny but ultimately tragic story. Building on the theme of human connections made and missed, this act takes a darker turn, looking at people who occupy the closest of quarters and yet don't really communicate at all. Bartleby, employed as a copyist in a law office of the 1840s, inexplicably begins to refuse to work, forcing his colleagues to ask themselves the transforming question that ends the play: What do we owe to the people who come into our lives?
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Book And Lyrics by Ken Stone; Music by Jan Powell
1st Produced:
Deaf West Theatre, North holwood, CA 20 Jun 2008
Organisations:
Antaeus Company
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>> 978-0-573-69619-0
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Synopsis:
A 45-minute one-act musical comedy with book and lyrics by Ken Stone and music by Jan Powell. Inspired by two stories of Hans Christian Andersen, it transplants fairytale themes to the setting of the American Old West, in a joyous mixture of love and laughter. Audience: ages 6 to adult. Though conceived for young audiences, it has always found its biggest fans among adults. Which says something, either about the adults or about the show.
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the staging can make very effective use of cardboard cutouts, masks, And hand puppets. Minimal technical requirements, but major opportunities for inventiveness.
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musical One Act
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Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: Possibility of non-speaking costume roles for children, if desired
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Synopsis:
A full-length musical with book and lyrics by Ken Stone and music by Jan Powell, about people caught up in the American westward movement. the year is 1844, when the crossing from Missouri to Oregon by ox-drawn wagon is still a new and uncertain undertaking. But the focus is on the very emotional human stories inside the historical events. the tone is serious, at times even tragic, but ultimately this is a tremendously uplifting story of perseverance and hope for the future. A large-cast show for ambitious college groups with strong theater and music department collaborations, really ambitious high school groups, community theaters with larger performance spaces, and civic light operas.
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1st Produced:
Overland PArk, Kansas -
Organisations:
Two Trails West
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Male: 12 Female: 7 Other: -
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