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| What's News at JAC Publishing & Promotions
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| JAC Publishing/NEED Update | 07/8/10 |
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What do you get when you combine a Farren with a Butcher? A NO BRAINER!
Charlie Farren and John Butcher - two great singer / songwriters. Both are master musicians, riveting performers, soulful and expressive singers, who have sold millions of copies of their songs around the world. They have written for tv, motion pictures, and have toured and performed in many of the most prestigious venues in the world. And both have grown and developed thru years of creating the soundtrack for so many lives. Put them together and you get Farren Butcher Inc. - shows not to be missed!
Click HERE for a complete list of upcoming northeastern show dates!
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Hello!
Summertime, and the livin'... has been HOT! We're in New England and temps have been flaring close to (if not passing) 100 - not really normal for this neck of the woods!
Also sizzling has been play and book submissions. Several new selections are nearing completion, as well as many more in the review process. Thank you to everyone who has submit a play and/or book for consideration. It's always a treat to see and read new works! To submit a play or book to JAC, email an electronic copy over, or snail mail to JAC Publishing, P.O. Box 88, Burlington, MA 01803.
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New Releases
 Hot off the press from playwright Rick Mitchell is a short comedy called Acadiana Sludge. Set in Southwest, the action unfolds in a trailer that sits amidst a derelict, hole-filled field from which oil had once been extracted. Cajun banjo player Darrell has recently returned after a lengthy stay in Chicago to lay claim to his share of the oil that will purportedly soon be pumped from his Daddy's faltering ranch. Darrell's wife is not happy having to stay cooped up with the children all day, fearing they might fall into one of the holes. Trey, Darrell's brother, soon shows up with the news that their father has been sent to prison, and that the oil deal isn't going to pan out... and that he's having an affair with Crystal. There is an off-stage struggle at the edge of a hole filled with sludge and a couple of subsequent, unexpected twists and turns that make Acadiana Sludge a sticky story that will keep you listening and laughing till the end. 2 men/1 woman. ISBN 1-60513-027-3; JAC #2008-0023. This title is also available on Amazon.com.
 Just in time to prepare for the Fall, Nicholas Conti has a new release that is family-friendly and especially beWITCHing - The Mystery of the House of Seven Gables. We know The House of the Seven Gables is a Colonial mansion in Salem, MA - but what is the "real" history of the House? With Salem's historic legacy of bubble, bubble, trials and trouble, it seems unlikely that this residence wouldn't have an even more interesting "life" to it. Meet the Gable family - Mom, Dad and their five young children. They have made this house their home, and have lived peacefully there for years, unaware of the House's other tenants. So what brought instability to their tranquility? Enter two witches, who set a plot to foil the Gables' plans to convert the witches' domain into a playroom. After bickering, spells and much unwell, the Gables come up with a scheme to outsmarts the Witches while still offering an exotic subterranean abode, befitting of the most sophisticated of witches, and they all live bewitchingly ever after! 3 women/1 man/3 young girls / 2 young boys; ISBN 1-60513-076-1; JAC #2010-0017. This title is also available on Amazon.com. For more information about these or any of JAC's play selections, visit us online, or drop us an email! |
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Ever need that perfect character monologue for an audition or performance? A sampling of many playwrights nationwide, interJACtions contains selections for men, women, or either, all races - all true characters unto themselves.
Compiled and edited by JulieAnn Charest Govang, this collection features contributions from some wonderfully talented writers including Bill Arnold, Steven Bergman, Andrew Biss, Leslie Bramm, Tearrance A. Chisholm, Mona Deutsch Miller, Rich Espey, Mike Folie, Chris Hare, Lynn-Steven Johanson, Arthur M. Jolly, Thomas M. Kelly, Janice Kennedy, Lauren Kettler, Steven Korbar, Mark Lambeck, Debbie Lamedman, Rhea MacCallum, Josh McIlvain, Rick Mitchell, Jeffrey Neuman, Dave Patterson, Martha Patterson, Andy Pederson, Robin Rice Lichtig, Laura Richardson, Dan Roth, Carol Anne Seflinger, John Small, Jennie Staniloff-Redling, Kim Stinson, Marti M. Stocker, Lucy Wang and Michael Weems.
interJACtions is available thru JAC Publishing & Promotions, online or by mail order. Click here to download a mail order form.
List Price: $7.95 + $3 S&H
The collection is also available online via Amazon.com (but not at this great rate)! |
| Playwright Profile - Steven Bergman has published his full-length play Cutting the Leash, and shorts The Guy Chair and Grieving Process with JAC. Other published plays include History (Winner in the 15-Minute category of the Sonoma County (CA) Rep's New Drama Works Scripts Competition (2003), Rosie the Teddy Bear (Premiered at the 2004 ACME New Works Festival) and Critic's Carnival. As a composer, Bergman is know for The Curse of the Bambino (www.bambinomusical.com), Jack The Ripper: The Whitechapel Musical, Four Kisses, and original scores for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, and Lanford Wilson's Book of Days. His oratorio, a celebration of the holiday Tu B'Shvat entitled Time Of the Trees, is available on ZCRecords. For young audiences, consider Bergman's adaptations of Tom and Huck, Tatterhood (a Swedish folktale), King Midas and his Friends (co-written Peggy Traktman), The Pied Piper (co-written with Christopher DiGrazia & Earl Maulding), and Rumplestiltskin. As a Musical Director, Bergman's productions include Das Barbec(New Repertory Theatre), ...Forum (American Stage Festival), the New England premieres of The Gig and When Pigs Fly (Lyric Stage Company), Personals and Tomfoolery (Actors Playhouse), Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, The Fantasticks, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Something's Afoot, Pirates of Penzance and Smoke On The Mountain (Worcester Foothills Theatre), and the world premiere of The Orphan Queen (Jewish Theatre of New England). As a Keyboardist: Nunsense Jamboree (national tour with Georgia Engel, CD/DVD with Vicki Lawrence), as well as national tours of Sunday in the Park with George, Dreamgirls, Guys and Dolls and Les Miserables. Bergman is a member of Theatre Communications Group and The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and teaches Drama and Music in the Littleton (MA) Schools. Visit him online. |
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interJACtions, Volume 1: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature