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The Cherry Sisters Revisited
Libretto – Play With Music / How far can you go with ambition, gumption, a good heart -- and no talent? The Cherry Sisters dreams of Vaudeville took them from their Iowa barn to Broadway, where their inept acrobatics and tone-deaf caterwauling continually sold out, bringing them fame -- and a barrage of rotten cabbages. Based on a true story and with music by Michael Friedman, Dan O'Briens thought-provoking comedy takes a look at the insatiable urge to perform, and the audience's inability to look away. Music and Vocal Score available for a separate fee. ( 5 f, 1 m)
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Published January 1, 2010
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Dan O'Brien
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Dan O’Brien’s plays include THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (Primary Stages, New York; Gate Theatre, London), THE HOUSE IN SCARSDALE: A MEMOIR FOR THE STAGE (The Theatre @ Boston Court), THE CHERRY SISTERS REVISITED (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival), THE VOYAGE OF THE CARCASS (Page 73 Productions; SoHo Playhouse), THE DEAR BOY (Second Stage Theatre), and many others. His playwriting awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art, the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, the PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. O’Brien was twice the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at Sewanee, the Hodder Fellow playwright-in-residence at Princeton University, and the inaugural Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. O’Brien is also a librettist and an award-winning poet whose collections, WAR REPORTER, SCARSDALE, and NEW LIFE, are published in the U.S. and the U.K.
Dan O’Brien’s plays include THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (Primary Stages, New York; Gate Theatre, London), THE HOUSE IN SCARSDALE: A MEMOIR FOR THE STAGE (The Theatre @ Boston Court), THE CHERRY SISTERS REVISITED (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival), THE VOYAGE OF THE CARCASS (Page 73 Productions; SoHo Playhouse), THE DEAR BOY (Second Stage Theatre), and many others. His playwriting awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art, the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, the PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. O’Brien was twice the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at Sewanee, the Hodder Fellow playwright-in-residence at Princeton University, and the inaugural Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. O’Brien is also a librettist and an award-winning poet whose collections, WAR REPORTER, SCARSDALE, and NEW LIFE, are published in the U.S. and the U.K.
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