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American Playhouse
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Stories of a Detention Farm, From One Who Lived There.
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention center, where two boys befriend each other.
Mary Beth Hurt
Mother
Tom Bower
Mr. Speck
Patrick LaBrecque
Tony Kemler
Jake Busey
Richard Halverson
Michael Hyland
Davey Rydell
Robert Breuler
Mr. Kibby
Benjamin Salisbury
Young Spacy
William Francis McGuire
Father
John Hanson
Director
Todd Boekelheide
Original Music Composer
Raro
Decision
Unspoken
Jabberwockies
SKZFLIX (ROCK-STAR)
Sunshine
Mommy
Inferno
Boogie Nights
10 Things I Hate About You
Help Me, Please
Ride Your Wave
Wake Up Sid
Amrum
Léolo
Show Me Love
Bengbulan
The Band's Visit
Theorem
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Baby of Mâcon
Human Traffic
Emotion
One False Move
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Olivier, Olivier
1-2-3 Corona
Mystic Pizza
Fatherland
More
Finder's Fee
My Tempo
Lovers
Disco Fever
Lovely by Surprise
Cherry Tobacco
Desert Bloom
Dirty Tricks
Brick Lane
Saving Buddy Charles
Hannah Takes the Stairs
Frozen Stars
Lonely Street
A Night in Heaven
Tower
Signals in Silence
Postcards from Last Summer
Oilmagna
Like How I Remember
Purgatory
TORO
Keeping in touch
Ofrandā
True Love Waits
Friends of Luke
Shut Eye
Deep Blue
Young, Fragile
Sa Aking Pagkakagising Mula sa Kamulatan
The Cure
Where Hope Grows
The Blind Side
Rebel Without a Cause
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Inside I'm Dancing
Lucky
Skater Girl
Dog Pound
American Underdog
Any Day Now
Eleanor the Great
As You Are
Boys Town
People Like Us
Draft Day
Standing Up
Small Things Like These
I Believe in Unicorns
The Young Savages
Here
Seeds of Yesterday
Reality
Poor Cow
Lady Driver
Don't Come Knocking
Kid Galahad
Paradise
Blue Chips
Tex
Northfork
The Truth About Emanuel
Honeydripper
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Oct 1, 1993
Aired on American Playhouse on April 15th, 1995.
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