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O'Donnell, Mark Patrick was born on July 19, 1954 in Cleveland. Son of Hubert John and Frances (Novak) O'D.
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Sixteen pieces accompanied by cartoons feature the tragicomic adventures of such characters as an idealistic screen goddess, sculptor Jack the Hipper, and Johnny Business, whose wealth requires three strong men just to conceive of.
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"Uproarious...one of the funniest writers around."--The New Yorker Tad Leary has problems. Just fired from his job at a Manhattan private school, about to be evicted from his sublet, and stalled on his dissertation ("Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places"), he wakes up on the Sunday before Christmas to realize he has seven parties to attend. A trooper in jeans and a pressed white shirt, he sets off for brunch with his eccentric family, an afternoon performance-art piece by a friend sporting little more than a tattooed goatee, a dinner party where he runs into an ex-girlfriend, a late-night soiree where he spars with an ex-boyfriend, and more. With a charming combination of wit, wisdom--and just a little whimpering--Tad charts a survivalist's course through Manhattan's social hierarchies. "A delight.... By turns zany and meditative, satirical and mellow...a gently bittersweet comedy."--Newsday "A wise, hilarious stocking stuffer."--The Village Voice
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(Applause Books). Hairspray is the 2003 Tony Award winner for Best Musical! Based on filmmaker John Waters' affectionately subversive homage to his Baltimore youth, Hairspray takes place in 1962. Chubby Tracy Turnblad (Marissa Jaret Winokur, 2003 Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical) is transformed into a teen celebrity on a local TV dance program. With her irresistible stage mother (Harvey Fierstein, 2003 Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical) at her side, she attempts to win the heart of the local heartthrob and integrate "The Corny Collins Show" at the same time.
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In Hairspray, it's 1962--the fifties are out and change is in the air. Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion: to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show, and overnight is transformed from an awkward overweight outsider into an irrespressible teen celebrity. But can a trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program's reigning blond princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her 'do? Only in Hairspray! Based on John Waters's 1988 film, the musical comedy Hairspray opened on Broadway in August 2002 to rave reviews. Hairspray: The Roots includes the libretto of the show--along with hilarious anecdotes from the authors, to say nothing of dance step diagrams and full-color bouffant wigs to copy and cut out--along with all the creative energy, brilliant color, and full-out emotion that have made the musical "a great big, gorgeous hit . . . [that] is a triumph on all levels" (Clive Barnes, The New York Post).
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Priss, a high-strung, beautiful Boston heiress, rents a rundown New York apartment with her sardonic Radcliffe roommate, Margaret. Each befriends Pony, a confused would-be actor and Mormon folk singer from Utah whose painfully repressed background leaves him vulnerable to imprinting romantically on anyone who takes an interest in him. The problem is that Pony really wants Hank, Priss' wanna-be-Republican boyfriend and boss. Hank is fond of Pony but finds little time to maintain a friendship with him, let alone a relationship with Priss. Though Hank and Priss finally go their separate ways, Hank and Pony achieve professional success while crossing paths along the way. On the other end of the spectrum is Margaret's edgy courtship with Mutt, a slobbish but engaging handy man who's been hired to remodel the apartment. Doubting even the minutest possibility that a worthwhile relationship exists, Margaret deliberately fences herself off from sex and emotional entanglement with a nonstop barrage of self-deprecating, intellectual banter whose withering effect almost succeeds in leaving her isolated and yearning for more. Mutt, constantly intrigued by Margaret, perseveres through his own emotional landmine, to win Margaret over to see his side and to start living with him. Through it all, these achingly recognizable characters display a bittersweet appreciation of half-happy endings and the truest survival skills of the socially satiric. More.
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O'Donnell, Mark Patrick was born on July 19, 1954 in Cleveland. Son of Hubert John and Frances (Novak) O'D.
Minnesota State Teachers College (Bachelor of Arts). William Mitchell College of Law (Juris Doctor).
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1976. In 1974, he helped produce a popular Sports Illustrated Lampoon parody (with Patricia Marx, Ian Frazier and Steve O'Donnell, among others). He was the writer and librettist for three Hasty Pudding musicals for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals group.
The pair also worked on another John Waters musical adaptation, Cry-Baby, for which they received a 2008 Tony nomination. His plays include That's It, Folks!. Fables for Friends; The Nice and the Nasty.
Strangers on Earth; Vertigo Park. And the book and lyrics for the musical Tots in Tinseltown. Along with Bill Irwin, he wrote Scapin, a 1997 play adapted from the original by Molière.
His books include Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales, as well as two novels, Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay. He contributed to all three issues of George Meyer's Army Man, as well as to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Spy. A 1980 article he wrote for Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion," was both widely quoted ("1 Anybody suspended in space will remain suspended in space until made aware of its situation") and widely circulated by fans of cartoon physics.
O'Donnell was also a writer for the 1981-1982 season of Saturday Night Live, under head writer Michael O'Donoghue. At Saturday Night Live, he wrote alongside Terry Southern. Although a proud Poonie, O'Donnell was a longtime editorial advisor to the Yale Record and taught a popular comedy-writing seminar at Yale University.
FamilyO’Donnell was the identical twin of television writer Steve O’Donnell. He died in 2012 after collapsing at his apartment building in Manhattan. He was 58.
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Author: Elementary Education, 1985, Vertigo Park, 1992, Getting Over Homer, 1996, (plays) Fables for Friends, 1980, That's It, Folks!, 1983, The Nice and the Nasty, 1986, Strangers on Earth, 1988, Vertigo Park, 1990, Scapin, 1996, Let Nothing You Dismay, 1998, (Broadway plays) Hairspray, 2002 (Tony award for Best Book of a Musical, 2003, Drama Desk award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, 2003, Laurence Olivier Best New Musical award for London production, 2008), Private Fittings, La Jolla, 2005, Cry-Baby, 2008 (nominee Tony award, Pyramus and Thisbe, Kennedy Center 2008). Contributing editor Esquire magazine, 1977-1978, Spy magazine, since 1987, Seven Days magazine, 1988-1990.
Consultant National Gay Task Force, Washington, 1987. Contributor The New Yoykey, since 1986. Member Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild American.