Characters Based on Cino People

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“SUMMER LIGHTNING” by MICHAEL SMITH

FRANK MANUELLA played a character based on JOHNNY DODD with CLARIS NELSON in her Neon in the Night, Caffe Cino, 1964, perhaps the first dramatic presentation of a Cino Person.

1st photo, Don Signore as NEIL FLANAGAN in a parody of The Madness of Lady Bright in DONALD L. BROOKS’ Superfreak or The Death of Joe Cino, Playbox, 1969, with Reynolds Callender. 2nd photo: Signore as JOE CINO stands behind Callender and between actresses. Photos by James Bidgood. See more photos and a link to reviews of this controversial play HERE.

Two self-portraits by WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN. (1) At CIRCLE REP, 1985: Jonathan Hadary with Jonathan Hogan, playing Bill in As Is, and (2) at L. A.’S FIFTH ESTATE THEATRE: 1982, Lisa Jasper and Hank Henderson as LUCY SILVAY and WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN in Hoffman’s Good Night, I Love You

Above, Carol Nelson, Allan Gassman, and Steve Nelson as VERY fanciful characters in my Angel, Honey, Baby, Darling, Dear, written Xmas 1964 to amuse ZITA LITVINAS, LANFORD WILSON, and MARSHALL MASON, this production at New York Theatre Ensemble, 1979.

In 1981, MARSHALL W. MASON added visualizations of Cino people, some played by themselves, in his CBS-Cable version of my Kennedy’s Children. Cino Person GLENN DUBOSE produced. These are captures from a dub of the program. Left: STEVE DAVIS as JOHN TORREY, MICHAEL WARREN POWELL as JOE CINO, JOHNNY DODD as himself.

Shirley Knight as “Carla,” a character based on CONNIE CLARK, JEANNIE LANSON, and ZITA LITVINAS, takes calming pills with KENNY BURGESS, MICHAEL WARREN POWELL, and JOHNNY DODD before Johnny reveals that Carla’s idol, Marilyn Monroe has died.

Carol Nelson as characters based on (top) JEANNIE LANSON and (bottom) MARY WORONOV in my “Hello, Bob,” La Mama, 1990, NYC.

Bonnie Young and Steve Nelson as characters based on MAGIE DOMINIC and CHARLES STANLEY in my “”Kennedy’s Children,” 1979, Phebe’s Bar, NYC.

Kevin Bacon in LANFORD WILSON’s autobiographical Lemon Sky, 1970, TV production 1988.

Lemon Sky by Lanford Wilson.

Bruce Ward (seated, with Lee Driskill) played a wise, compassionate, wry, and witty character not unlike author DORIC WILSON in Street Theater, written 1980. This production at the Eagle, NYC, 2002.

At SEATTLE’S P.C.A. THEATRE, 1990: JAYNE HARRIS as her deceased brother GEORGE HARRIS III in Hibiscus (George’s stage name) with brother WALTER HARRIS as himself. To top it all, a male played Jayne.

H.M. Koutoukas played himself in Harvey Fierstein’s 1972 “In Search of the Cobra Jewels.” See AMAZING photos of DONALD L. BROOKS’ splendid production on his site HERE.

Terry Talley as me sings “It’s Only a Show,” watched by “stagehand” Barry Greenberg and “critic” Bambi Everson in my 24 Inches, Theater for the New City, NYC, 1982. “When you’re putting on a play, You cannot keep the crowds away, As long as they don’t have to pay. They want free tickets. Savants in fancy restaurants Wonder what the public wants. I could savvy those savants. It wants free tickets. Politicos who swear in court That theatre deserves support Are by coincidence the sort Who’ll walk through pickets To get free tickets.”

CINO ACTRESSES whom I combined for the character, “Carla” in “Kennedy’s
Children”: CONNIE CLARK, JEANIE LANSON, and ZITA LITVINAS.