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	Live Bait Theater Chicago's Joseph Jefferson (Jeff) Committee has honored Live Bait with Best New Work and Best Adaptation nominations for: NIGHT BATTLES (2001), LOVECHILD (2000), CHERI (1999), 1001 AFTERNOONS IN CHICAGO (1997), ZAP! (1996), I WAS REALLY VERY HUNGRY: A PORTRAIT OF M.F.K. FISHER (1996), DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE (1993), and GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! LIVE ON STAGE, TOTALLY RUDE. We have an interest in the history of Chicago, most notably our award-winning 1,001 AFTERNOONS IN CHICAGO and NELSON AND SIMONE, about the Chicago-based love affair between Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir. We have also presented new plays inspired by Hollywood history: DEATH ON A PINK CARPET, the Lana Turner—Johnny Stompanato murder scandal; the indie-film satire FILM FLAM; and PARAMOUNT GIRL, an irreverent bio-play about 1950s actress-turned-nun Dolores Hart. Live Bait is also known for its dramatic adaptations of unconventional literature. LA SVENGALI, one of our first productions, was based on the British novel TRILBY by George du Maurier. We later presented Colette’s CHERI in its first professional English-speaking stage adaptation in fifty years. I WAS REALLY VERY HUNGRY: A PORTRAIT OF M.F.K. FISHER was a huge hit drawing lovers of literature as well as local foodies. MEMENTO MORI was adapted from the essays of F. Gonzalez-Crussi, a pathologist who wrote about the mysteries of death, both medically and historically. OF DIAMONDS AND DIPLOMATS, Letitia Baldridge’s memoir of her years on the Kennedy administration as the social secretary to the First Lady, premiered in the summer of 1995, will be remounted at the Chicago Field Museum’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Exhibition in 2005.
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