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JAWS!...The Musical!

3/22/2022

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If you read this blog, then you are probably aware that I am like "super-sensitive" about plagiarism and intellectual property theft.  Why?  Well, because I think I'm a source of supply (I'm not going to use the word victim and buy into that mentality).  But also, I know that in having this public blog I am putting stuff "out there" that others may be inspired by.  And that's cool.  However, if you're going to borrow my cup of sugar, just don't pretend you bought it.  Anyways, I don't want to linger on that.
You also may recall in a recent series of blogs that I started writing a screenplay for a movie musical version of "Jaws," the Spielberg classic from 1975.
Well, the other day, what pops up in my smartphone feed?  An announcement that The Seattle Rep has cast their "Spielberg" in their upcoming musical version of the making of the movie Jaws.
Their show is called "Bruce," after the nickname of the mechanical shark from the movie.  Now, I had no idea this project was being developed when I started up my version (which I've abandoned: I have other stuff I need to do; and I wasn't really serious about it anyways).  And I'm not saying I've been ripped off again (they announced their show in July of 2021; I started my version in early 2022). Maybe I'm saying "great minds think alike"? Wink, wink.
But what I am saying (again); as I've said it before: things zip through the zeitgeist.  That's how you end up with three versions of the same story in three different movies released at the same time.  Or a period in the culture where a certain theme gets a lot of play.  Like remember in the early 70's there were all those songs about evil, witchy women?
Witchy Woman by the Eagles. Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac. Evil Woman by E.L.O. and so on and so on...​
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So, break a fin Bruce! And fingers crossed you make it to Broadway, because I really want to see it!  It sounds like a ludicrous, totally unlikely, possibly disastrous kind of project; but that's exactly what Art needs to be.  Otherwise, you end up with Finding Nemo, The Musical.  Am I right people?

CFR 3/22/22
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    Christopher Reidy is from the Boston area.  He attended Boston University where he studied TV and film which eventually led him to Los Angeles.  There he did the Hollywood thing (which he wasn’t particularly good at) and eventually met his partner Joseph.  He was one of the co-founders of the short lived Off Hollywood Theatre Company which staged several of his original plays.  83 In the Shade is his first novel.  He also dabbles in screenplays, toys with short stories, and flirts with poetry.  Life brought him to bucolic Southwest Virginia where he now resides and is very active in community theatre. It may interest you to know Chris is officially an Irish citizen as well as an American. He also enjoys drawing and painting and looking after a passel of 
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    housecats and two turtles.