Updates: Original Music and plays

Updates:
I have been asked to perform my original music at the 25th Reunion of the Chicago Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Parade weekend. My vet friends from Australia will be coming in to celebrate (June, 2011). It will be good to see my friends from the Chicago area as well as the Aussies.

October submissions: "The Bus to Vegas", Camino Real Playhouse,
"Freedom's Last Breath", Theatre Three,
"Brother Can You Spare Me...", Longwood Ten-Minute Play Festival.
"Lolly Struple and Her Chippies", Writers' Journal.

New Play by Jackie Marx: The Bus to Vegas

A play in ten minutes, 2 W.
Secrets are revealed at a CA beach just off the PCH as two friends
(Lolly and Clarise) wait for the bus to Vegas.

The Old Man on the Parkbench

I am working on a new play with these photos as a prompt. I'll add progress updates...

Happy Independence Day!

The link http://www.nccs.net/ will guide you to the Constitution of the United States of America. I hope you will take a few minutes on this Independence Day to read what our Founding Fathers created: this document has kept our nation functioning for all these years.

Gray Lady's Angel Baby

Gray Lady's Angel Baby was performed for an audience of 200 plus. The festival was a success and I was proud to be part of it with my play.

Kimberlyn Austin as Angel Baby.

Gray Lady's Angel Baby

My play, Gray Lady's Angel Baby, will be performed at Theatre 4301 in Scottsdale (Presenters: Scottsdale Center For the Performing Arts and The Dramatists Guild of America) on the evening of June 5th, 2009 (An Evening of New Works Festival). Scroll down for information from Scottsdale Center's media release.

INFORMATION FROM MEDIA RELEASE:

"An Evening of New Works"June 5, 2009; Friday @ 8 p.m.Theater 4301, Galleria Corporate Centre, Scottsdale
(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in association with The Dramatists Guild of America will present "An Evening of New Works" on June 5 at 8 p.m. at Theater 4301 in downtown Scottsdale.

Single tickets are available for $5 from the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Web site at http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/ or the box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787).

"An Evening of New Works" will feature a selection of short plays, each no more than 10 minutes in length, by eight playwrights from Arizona and New Mexico. Some plays will be performed as staged readings while others will be more rehearsed presentations with minimal production elements. The purpose of the evening is to help the playwrights develop these new works. Audience members will be given the opportunity to provide feedback through a talk-back session with the playwrights.
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Hope to see you there,

Jackie

An Evening of New Works 2009

My stage play, Gray Lady's Angel Baby, has been selected for inclusion in the 3rd Annual "An Evening of New Works" (The Dramatists Guild of America) to be held on Friday, June 5th, 2009.

Sixty nine plays were submitted and eight were chosen.

"Plots" by Robert Benjamin
"The Guy from 1992" by Mare Biddle
"Alex and Anna" by J. Boyer
"responsible" by Dennis Bush
"Culebra" by David Dudley
"BFF" by Debra Rich Gettleman
"Gray Lady's Angel Baby" by Jackie Marx
"Together Alone" by Richard Warren

My play, "Freedom's Last Breath" was chosen in 2007, and "Tick Tock!" was chosen in 2008.

Sunrise Business Builders

Meeting

March 27, 2009

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Write From the Heart Writing Workshop

March 2009

Jan

Jan and me on her 50th birthday

My dear friend, Jan Erickson, died suddenly Monday morning, January 26. I am still in shock and I will miss her so. My heart aches for her sons John (Kathy) and Scott, and her cherished grandsons.

Jenny's Wedding

My daughter Jenny got married on August 30th in San Clemente, CA with the ocean as a backdrop. The reception was at Cindy and Ron's house (my other daughter and son-in-law), directly across the street from the ceremony.

The bride was beautiful.

There were about one hundred and forty people in attendance. Local Long Beach musicians ( who have gained some national notoriety) took turns honoring Jenny and her new husband (Dave Beste, bass player with Rocco DeLuca and the Burden) with original songs. Dave and Jenny sang a few with them. Rocco was to sing but was out of town for the weekend. Kiefer Sutherland was there.

Tick Tock!

My stage play, Tick Tock! is going up (staged reading) at Theatre 4301, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, June 13th. The short play was chosen by the Dramatists Guild of America for the 2008 An Evening of New Works. Director (Charles St. Clair) and cast: Edith Kelly (MOTHER), Nicole Colby (GEORGETTE), Robin Austin (JERILYN) and Mark Austin (NARRATOR) have done a marvelous job bringing the play to life; my thanks go out to them.

DICK'S LAST TRIP TO THE WALL

The Run For The Wall riders honored Dick Darnell by taking him (his ashes) to the Wall.

DICK DARNELL

10-31-47 Y 05-02-08
0210 AM: passing of Lloyd "Dick" Darnell
SSgt. US Army 101st. Airborne.

Dick, we will always love you.

Rocket City! Update

An experiment: Freedom's Last Breath as the prologue to Rocket City!

Easter wishes

Happy Easter!

I will be leaving for CA today to see family, and I will return Monday night.

Dick's Party Update

The party was a success. The place was packed. So much food. Dick was so thrilled. I was thrilled to sing God Bless America to him. He had dinner with us this past Friday and spent the night.

He is on his way back to California for another treatment.

He will beat this thing.

Party for Dick Darnell

Our friend Dick Darnell (Dick's Family Kitchen) is coming into town for a Welcome Home party in his honor. It will be held at the VA hospital in Phoenix this Saturday evening (February 16th). If you are in town and want to honor this extraordinary Vietnam veteran, please email me and I can give you the particulars. jamarx@cox.net.

Dickie Bird

Please add your prayers and happy, healthy thoughts for our dear friend, Dick Darnell in his fight with cancer. This big-hearted Vietnam veteran (101st Airborne) is always there for everyone! and now is his time to be supported by all the people he has helped.

"Dickie Bird, we love you." xxxooo

Happy New Year

2008

I will be working with Mark Foreman in the coming months on an ongoing project of mine.



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