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Jackie: An American Life

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  8any gender (adult)

Gip Hoppe

"Gip Hoppe has a real talent for comic lampoon." - New York Times
"A complete delight ... done with such heart and high comedy that you may not want to leave the theatre." - The New Yorker

Jackie: An American Life

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    8any gender (adult)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Biography
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
Here is a hilarious theatrical cartoon about Jackie Kennedy from which only its heroine emerges unscathed. Her life is presented as a fractured fairy tale of deliriously affectionate satire.
History
Jackie: An American Life premiered at the Academy Playhouse in New Orleans, Massachusetts inn 1992.

SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONEER
JACQUELINE KENNEDY
BLACK JACK BOUVIER
JANET BOUVIER
LEE BOUVIER
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS
WARD JOHNSON
SUSAN
BIFF HUTCHINSON, III, MONY & CALVIN
BETTY FRETZ
JOHN HUSTED
MARTHA BARTLETT
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
INGA
BJORN
EUNICE KENNEDY
PAT KENNEDY
JEAN KENNEDY
TEDDY KENNEDY
BOBBY KENNEDY
JOE KENNEDY
ROSE KENNEDY
FRANK SINATRA
THE RAT PACK
MARILYN MONROE
TRUMAN CAPOTE
HOWARD K. SMITH
SANDER VANOCER
RICHARD NIXON
OLEG CASSINI
CHARLES COLLINGWOOD, CBS NEWS
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
ZAPRUDER'S SECRETARY
RON GALELLA
A CHORUS
CHRISTINA ONASSIS
MUR DOCH
THE SECRET SERVICE
AMERICAN, FRENCH CITIZENS, GREEKS,
APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE




Actors to play multiple roles

  • Time Period 1960s, 1950s
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Puppetry
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"One of the most irreverent shows to come to Broadway in quite a while.... Jackie is satire with respect!" - WNBC-TV

"Gip Hoppe has a real talent for comic lampoon." - New York Times

"A complete delight ... done with such heart and high comedy that you may not want to leave the theatre." - The New Yorker

"Worthy of Monty Python." - New York Post

"Wonderful and inventive." - Newsday

"Terrific fun!" - New York Daily News

"A clever cartoon caper ... [with] screwball staging and glib caricaturing." - Newark Star-Ledger

"It's nothing short of brilliant." - Boston Herald

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  • Minimum Fee: $120 per performance

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Gip Hoppe

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