SIR HARRY LAUDER TONIGHT!
A famed Hollywood actor produces and stars in an Off-Broadway musical about his idle – the acclaimed, world renowned but long forgotten musical hall entertainer, Sir Harry Lauder. A biographical musical extravaganza. All music public domain.
Speaking to a symposium of theatre students and Broadway professionals, he outlines his reasons, as a man of the theatre, for mounting this production: • Lauder was the most famous entertainer in the world in his day, • He was the highest paid entertainer in show business, • He was the first international super star, • He became a star of stage, screen and radio, • He survived tragic personal life experiences.
Dunlap also discusses the financial risks of producing and starring in his own show. He is confident, but concerned, about how the play will be received. But Dunlap is determined; the Harry Lauder story deserves to be told.
Moving on to the Opening Night, Dunlap interacts with his director, crew, fellow actors, dresser, make-up lady and his husband, Brian Standish.
Awaiting his bagpipe entrance off stage, Dunlap transforms from his affable, low key persona into the dynamic, energetic and charismatic performer that was Sir Harry Lauder.
The play, “Sir Harry Lauder Tonight” is then performed and filmed in front of a live audience. The show contains all the Harry Lauder signature tunes and displays his phenomenal onstage personality.
The performance of the play is the highlight of the film.
Following the Opening Night curtain, Dunlap retreats to his Greenwich Village apartment to await the theatrical reviews.
There, in the early morning hours, they find the reviews online. The show is a success!
Not surprisingly, they celebrate singing a Harry Lauder song.
Screenplays
Jim specializes in screenplays based on historical true events (including musicals), bio/pics and/or disasters. In alphabetical order:
“BOJANGLES, EUBIE AND BERT!” Three black musical legends of the past – Bert Williams, Eubie Blake and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson – relive their show business success in spite of racism and theatrical bigotry.
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Post Your Script Here!River of Dreams
Star-crossed lovers, Hamilton Maywood and Lee Ann Hunter, participants in the 1870 great steamboat races, have a second chance to get it right coming back as Greystone Ducette and Elizabeth Rowland, aboard a modern day re-enactment of the boat race.
Murder by Suicide
Cheated on by her rock star husband, a woman starts a unique and risky agency to save other celebrity wives from the same fate, only to find herself accused of the murder of one of her most notorious and ruthless clients.
But You Can't hide
A missing husband, a soldier of fortune, and an heiress whose touch with reality comes and goes, brings mystery and death.
Never a Dull Moment
A view of the modern world of real estate, where like a dysfunctional family, the agents interact with each other and their clients.
For the Love of Pete
An ultimate bachelor and womanizer, meets a woman he can’t live without who loves kids, so her borrows his brat niece to claim as his own, but like all good plans it backfires.
Dumped
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This Someone Else Is You
Maggie Thorpe’s mother has just married her fifth husband, who has a son who dumped Maggie three years ago and who broke her heart, and who now see the opportunity for mischief and mayhem.
Nobody's Angel
Obsessed as to why a dead girl is labeled a hooker and an OD, and in spite of no one believing it was foul play, and coupled with the feeling he should know her, a New York detective pursues a case that everyone else has written off.
Second Chance Inn
The Second Chance inn exists only for those who are expected.
NEVERMORE
Edgar Allan Poe, poet, author and detective, investigates a series of mysterious murders - including that of his own wife - in an alt-history 1847 Baltimore.
