Reunions Book and Lyrics by Jeffrey Scharf; Music by Jimmy Calire Website: https://www.jeffreyscharftheatrical.com Contact Email: jscharf_music@msn.com
“Reunions” is a musical adaptation of two famous one-act plays with unique casting possibilities.  The plays share a common theme: ex-lovers met by chance after many years apart. “A Sunny Morning,” based on the charming play by the Quintero Brothers, shows that hope of love springs eternal – even among septuagenarians. “The Twelve-Pound Look,” adapted from the play by James M. Barrie, is a thoroughly modern look at issues of class, a woman’s “place” and the high price of success.  “A Sunny Morning” takes place in a park in Madrid. Dona Laura is a handsome woman of seventy-five who delights in life. Don Gonzalo is an irritable 75-year old gentleman interested only in having a park bench to himself. Finding all the benches occupied, Don Gonzalo grudgingly sits next to Dona Laura. After exchanging “unpleasantries,” the two discover that they both spent time in the city of Valencia. As they share veiled memories, each comes to the realization that they had been thwarted lovers more than fifty years before. Each, believing the other is unaware of the connection, must decide whether revealing his or her true identity will kindle hope for the future or spoil the memory of the past.  “The Twelve Pound Look” is set in a London drawing room during the Downton Abbey era. Harry Sims is a nouveau riche striver who thinks he has it all – a Kensington mansion, a beautiful if browbeaten second wife Emmy, and an impending knighthood. All appears well until Harry’s first wife, Kate, arrives. Sent by a secretarial agency to answer the multitude of letters congratulating Harry on his knighthood, Kate and Harry set eyes on each other for the first time since Kate abandoned Harry’s gilded cage for of life of independence fourteen years earlier. By the time Kate leaves this day, Harry doubts his success as a man or a husband while Emmy’s eyes are opened to the possibility of a different and better life.  Time period for both acts: 1910.  With maximum double casting, six actors are needed.  There is no upper limit to cast size.   Two set locations:  A British drawing and a park bench.  Music for “A Sunny Morning” has a Spanish flair.  “The 12-Pound Look” music harkens to the Golden Age of Broadway. SAVE THE DATE.  May 22, 2025  Time: tbd “REUNIONS” will have a stage reading at the Roundabout Theatre Company Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, Black Box Theatre 111 W. 46 St. New York City Ken Davenport, Executive Producer Gabriel Barre, Director.  Sonny Paladino, Musical Director. Featuring:  Kennedy Kanagawa, Ashley Blanchet, Bryan Fenkart For invitation:  Contact jscharf_music@msn.com “Reunions” was initially produced in Ojai, CA.  Moving on to Off-Broadway production Fall 2025.  Looking to fine-tune based on feedback from the reading. Jeffrey Scharf is a playwright, bookwriter, lyricist, songwriter, screenwriter and Kleban Award finalist.  In addition to “Reunions,” produced musicals in the 1930’s style show-in-a-show “Who’s Got Me?” and “David Copperfield, The New Musical.”  His holiday play with music “The Three Tales (Gifts) of Christmas” was commissioned and produced by the Elite Theatre Company.  Works in progress include “For a Moment in Time” (music by Glenn Richard Treibitz) which had a well-received stage reading at the Garry Marshall Theater in Burbank in 2023.  His “Banana Slugs Fight Song” is heard in the movie “The Baxter.”  Other works include book and lyrics for “Houdini Among the Spirits,” the movie script “The Best Laugh” and the ten-minute plays “Postcards from the Ledge” and “M-Urgency Room.”  Jeffrey is the co-writer of “I Don’t Want to Know” recorded by Spencer Day and “Life in the Slow Lane” recorded by Roberta Donnay. Jimmy Calire has had an extraordinary and versatile career.  In the later 1960’s, he was a member of and principal writer for the legendary “Raven”, a Buffalo, New York based band that played with such luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Led Zeppelin and went on to become a favorite of musicians all around the country.  Playing keyboards and saxophone, he toured worldwide for several years with the group “America.” He studied composition and arranging with his mentor Leroy Holmes, who was renowned as an arranger for Harry James and Della Reese, in addition to founding Everest Records.  Jimmy has recently worked as musical director for the Ojai Art Center, and has received rave reviews for his work in several productions including “Show Boat”, South Pacific,“My Fair Lady” “Guys & Dolls“ , “ Man of La Mancha” and “Big Rive.” Reunions” is Jmmy’s third musical.  He has written music, lyrics and orchestrations for both “A Christmas Carol the Musical” (book by J.B. White) which has played widely in the U.S. and England and “Beggars the Musical” (book by Taylor Kasch and Richard Dewhurst) based on the original “Beggar’s Opera.”

Reunions

Book and Lyrics by Jeffrey Scharf; Music by Jimmy Calire

Website: https://www.jeffreyscharftheatrical.com
Contact Email: jscharf_music@msn.com

“Reunions” is a musical adaptation of two famous one-act plays with unique casting possibilities.  The plays share a common theme: ex-lovers met by chance after many years apart. “A Sunny Morning,” based on the charming play by the Quintero Brothers, shows that hope of love springs eternal – even among septuagenarians. “The Twelve-Pound Look,” adapted from the play by James M. Barrie, is a thoroughly modern look at issues of class, a woman’s “place” and the high price of success.

 “A Sunny Morning” takes place in a park in Madrid. Dona Laura is a handsome woman of seventy-five who delights in life. Don Gonzalo is an irritable 75-year old gentleman interested only in having a park bench to himself. Finding all the benches occupied, Don Gonzalo grudgingly sits next to Dona Laura. After exchanging “unpleasantries,” the two discover that they both spent time in the city of Valencia. As they share veiled memories, each comes to the realization that they had been thwarted lovers more than fifty years before. Each, believing the other is unaware of the connection, must decide whether revealing his or her true identity will kindle hope for the future or spoil the memory of the past.

 “The Twelve Pound Look” is set in a London drawing room during the Downton Abbey era. Harry Sims is a nouveau riche striver who thinks he has it all – a Kensington mansion, a beautiful if browbeaten second wife Emmy, and an impending knighthood. All appears well until Harry’s first wife, Kate, arrives. Sent by a secretarial agency to answer the multitude of letters congratulating Harry on his knighthood, Kate and Harry set eyes on each other for the first time since Kate abandoned Harry’s gilded cage for of life of independence fourteen years earlier. By the time Kate leaves this day, Harry doubts his success as a man or a husband while Emmy’s eyes are opened to the possibility of a different and better life.

 Time period for both acts: 1910.  With maximum double casting, six actors are needed.  There is no upper limit to cast size.   Two set locations:  A British drawing and a park bench.  Music for “A Sunny Morning” has a Spanish flair.  “The 12-Pound Look” music harkens to the Golden Age of Broadway.

SAVE THE DATE.  May 22, 2025  Time: tbd

“REUNIONS” will have a stage reading at the Roundabout Theatre Company

Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, Black Box Theatre

111 W. 46 St. New York City

Ken Davenport, Executive Producer

Gabriel Barre, Director.  Sonny Paladino, Musical Director.

Featuring:  Kennedy Kanagawa, Ashley Blanchet, Bryan Fenkart

For invitation:  Contact jscharf_music@msn.com

“Reunions” was initially produced in Ojai, CA.  Moving on to Off-Broadway production Fall 2025.  Looking to fine-tune based on feedback from the reading.

Jeffrey Scharf is a playwright, bookwriter, lyricist, songwriter, screenwriter and Kleban Award finalist.  In addition to “Reunions,” produced musicals in the 1930’s style show-in-a-show “Who’s Got Me?” and “David Copperfield, The New Musical.”  His holiday play with music “The Three Tales (Gifts) of Christmas” was commissioned and produced by the Elite Theatre Company.  Works in progress include “For a Moment in Time” (music by Glenn Richard Treibitz) which had a well-received stage reading at the Garry Marshall Theater in Burbank in 2023.  His “Banana Slugs Fight Song” is heard in the movie “The Baxter.”  Other works include book and lyrics for “Houdini Among the Spirits,” the movie script “The Best Laugh” and the ten-minute plays “Postcards from the Ledge” and “M-Urgency Room.”  Jeffrey is the co-writer of “I Don’t Want to Know” recorded by Spencer Day and “Life in the Slow Lane” recorded by Roberta Donnay.

Jimmy Calire has had an extraordinary and versatile career.  In the later 1960’s, he was a member of and principal writer for the legendary “Raven”, a Buffalo, New York based band that played with such luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Led Zeppelin and went on to become a favorite of musicians all around the country.  Playing keyboards and saxophone, he toured worldwide for several years with the group “America.”

He studied composition and arranging with his mentor Leroy Holmes, who was renowned as an arranger for Harry James and Della Reese, in addition to founding Everest Records.  Jimmy has recently worked as musical director for the Ojai Art Center, and has received rave reviews for his work in several productions including “Show Boat”, South Pacific,“My Fair Lady” “Guys & Dolls“ , “ Man of La Mancha” and “Big Rive.”

Reunions” is Jmmy’s third musical.  He has written music, lyrics and orchestrations for both “A Christmas Carol the Musical” (book by J.B. White) which has played widely in the U.S. and England and “Beggars the Musical” (book by Taylor Kasch and Richard Dewhurst) based on the original “Beggar’s Opera.”