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The Day They Shot John Lennon

Author(s):
James  Mclure

The action of the play takes place in the street in front of the Manhattan apartment house where John Lennon was shot to death. Deeply moved and shocked by this awful event, many New Yorkers spontaneously assembled there to pay tribute to their slain idol, and it is from the interwoven stories of a cross section of these people that the author builds his play. Included are a young advertising executive and a "women's libber" who had both been at Woodstock; a group of high school students preoccupied with romantic disputes and entanglements; a pair of Vietnam vets with larceny in mind; an elderly Jewish man from a neighboring building who mistakenly thinks that the murder victim was Jack Lemmon; and a hip young black would-be comic who, in turns out, is the son of the old Jewish gentleman's doorman. Through the interaction of these people, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, sometimes menacing, the author points up the larger significance of the event which has brought them together--the shock wave which was felt across the nation by this further evidence of the violence and ugliness lurking in our communal soul.

Play Details:
Genre(s):	Drama
Time Period(s):	Not Available
Play Type:	Play
Runtime:	Not Available
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Total Characters:	9
Male Characters:	7
Female Characters:	2
Androgynous Characters:	Not Available
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Cost:	FEE: $50 per performance Royalty/cost information prone to change. Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information.
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices.
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