“BOTTOM LINE: Our highest recommendation! A white-hot enactment of the imagined relationship between the two most notable women in JFK’s life, and POTUS himself, mixing sex, politics, and passion in an incendiary theatrical combination.”
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CHARACTERS:
Jacqueline Kennedy
Marilyn Monroe
John F. Kennedy
SETTING:
Various, suggested:
White House Breakfast Room
A Party
Bing Crosby’s House
Lincoln Room
Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood House
A Boat on the Potomac
Horse Riding Ground in India
RUNNING TIME:
90 Minutes
HISTORY:
Off-Broadway run at The Lion Theatre, Theatre Row, NYC
SAMPLE DIALOGUE:
JOHN: I’m your biggest fan.
MARILYN: The admiration is mutual, Mr. President.
JOHN: I enjoyed the Seven Year Itch very much.
MARILYN: Billy Wilder. It’s one of my favorites.
JOHN: It certainly looked like you were having fun. Billy Wilder, huh?
MARILYN: That’s right.
JOHN: Let’s see, how long have I been married?
MARILYN: Please don’t, Mr. President.
JOHN: Don’t…?
MARILYN: Usually, right about now, men tell me they’ve been married exactly seven years.
JOHN: It really is a common pick up line, huh?
MARILYN: Pretty much.
JOHN: I didn’t mean it like that.
MARILYN: I know you didn’t.
JOHN: I surely do like the movie.
MARILYN: Thank you.
Beat
MARILYN: How long have you been married?
JOHN: Seven years.
MARILYN:(Laughs)No. Really?
JOHN: Feels that way, sometimes.
MARILYN: That’s the next thing they say.
JOHN: Boy, I really am a cliché, huh?
MARILYN: A little. But I like it.
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