Jerry Zaks
Nacimiento : 1946-09-07, Stuttgart, Germany
Historia
Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me A Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Guys and Dolls.
Director
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III wrote his first letter to Melissa Gardner to tell her she looked like a lost princess. They were both seven years old. For the next fifty years, through personal triumphs and despair, through wars and marriages and children and careers, they poured out the secrets of their hearts to each other. They defied a fate that schemed to keep them apart and lived—through letters—or the one most meaningful thing, their undying love for each other.
Director
Who Do You Love is the life story of legendary record producer Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records in Chicago, IL, the label that helped popularize blues music during the 1950s and ’60s.
Stage Director
Smokey Joe's Cafe, Broadway's longest-running musical revue, highlights the best songs by the legendary song-writing duo, Leiber and Stoller. Included numbers are "Neighborhood", "Fools Fall In Love", "Yakety Yak", "Charlie Brown", "Jailhouse Rock", "Hound Dog", "Love Potion #9" and "Stand By Me".
Director
Hace ya muchos años, las vidas de Lee, una mujer ferozmente independiente, y su hermana mayor Bessie siguieron caminos muy distintos. Lee se marchó a Ohio, mientras que Bessie regresó al hogar familiar de Florida para cuidar de su padre Marvin, que yace en cama después de un ataque al corazón.
Director
Tres episodios basados en los textos de O. Henry. El primero trata de la amistad entre un pintor y dos mujeres jóvenes. El segundo, un joven que recibe una cantidad insignificante de su tío, como herencia. El tercero se refiere a dos personas que lo hacen todo posible cuando se dan a sí mismos como regalos de Navidad.
Himself
A behind-the-scenes look at the cast-album recording session of the 1992 Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical. Originally broadcast as part of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 21, episode 4).
Man on Campus
Un médico neoyorquino decide tomar medidas desesperadas cuando su amante le amenaza con sacar a la luz su aventura si no se casa con ella. Cuando su hermano se ofrece para eliminar el problema, se enfrenta a un dilema moral. Paralelamente, a Clifford Stern le encargan hacer un documental sobre su cuñado Lester, un famoso productor de televisión que personaliza todo lo que Clifford desprecia.
Stage Director
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
Tobacco Clerk
Lauren, una joven bailarina que aspira a ser actriz, se inscribe en el curso de teatro del prestigioso profesor ruso Korzenowsky. Ella y Sandy, otra alumna del grupo, no simpatizan mucho, y eso que aún no saben que comparten al mismo hombre, Mikel Sander. Pero el destino las unirá cuando Mikel desaparezca misteriosamente tras un atentado terrorista.
Carl Schnee
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Debuting on Broadway in 1980, Tintypes is a musical review featuring songs from the early twentieth century providing the audience with a look into that turbulent time in American history. Nominated for three Tony Awards, and winner of several Obie Awards, this production stars Carolyn Mignini, Lynne Thigpen, Trey Wilson, Mary Catherine Wright, and Jerry Zaks.
Lenny Becker
Aclamada dramatización que recrea el motín de 1971 en la prisión estatal de Attica en Nueva York que duró 23 días y resultó en la mayor matanza entre estadounidenses desde la Guerra Civil.