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HOSTAGE SONG
Recently closed at the Kraine Theatre, NYC
Kyle wrote the music and lyrics for this piece -- a
moody, moving, sometimes quite funny examination of two American hostages being held abroad. Also, it's a love story. Clay McLeod Chapman wrote the book and Oliver Butler directed. Click here to see the Time Out New York feature article about it.
Listen to a song: Never Say Die performed by Paul Thureen, Libby Winters, Drew St. Aubin, Paul Bates, Jonathan Sherrill, and Kyle Jarrow.
LOVE KILLS
Produced Fall 2007 at the New York Music Theatre Festival
Nebraska, 1958: the world is closing in on Charlie Starkweather and Caril Fugate, teenage lovers charged with committing eleven murders in the course of a week. Under pressure to confess by dawn, facts blur and loyalties shift, and the question remains: how far will you go for someone you love? An emo rock musical based on the true story that inspired the films Badlands and Natural Born Killers.
Listen to a song: When I Could Feel performed by Marisa Rhodes & Nathan Leigh
TRIGGER
Produced at American Repertory Theatre, Feb 2008
Ryan's wife gets in a crippling car accident while he's in bed with another woman, and he begins to wonder: do his actions have the power to cause disaster? A darkly funny, provocative new play about placing blame and struggling to survive tragedy.
GORILLA MAN
Script now available from Samuel French
Waking one morning to find thick fur growing on the backs of his hands, young Billy discovers the awful truth his mother has been hiding from him for 14 years. Cast from his home, he sets out on a journey to find his father, the legendary Gorilla Man. It's a darkly comic coming-of-age tale that explores issues of violence, identity, and free will against the backdrop of a warped American landscape. A rock-and-roll musical. Kyle also played a role in this show in its original production.
Premiered at P.S. 122 in NYC, March 2005, it also ran at Boston Theater Works in April 2006.
Listen to a song: Gorilla Man performed by Kyle Jarrow & Perry Silver
ARMLESS
Winner 2004 Overall Excellence Award at the NY Internat'l Fringe Festival
John is a normal man, except for one thing: he wants his arms cut off. John suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a psychological condition in which an individual paradoxically doesn't feel "whole" unless he loses one or more major limbs. When John attempts to find a doctor willing to perform this operation, it triggers a twisted romp filled with mistaken identities, missed chances, and tragic consequences. A provocative farce about notions of personal freedom and medical ethics. Premiered at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival.
A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT
Winner 2004 OBIE Award
Now available from Samuel French
A jubilant cast of children celebrate the controversial religion in uplifting pageantry and song. The actual teachings of The Church of Scientology are explained and dissected against the candy-colored backdrop of a traditional nativity play. Produced by Les Freres Corbusier at The Tank and The John Houseman Theatre in November 2003-January 2004, and then at the Powerhouse Theatre in Los Angeles in October 2004. It's been all over the country since then.
Listen to a song: The Way That It Began performed by the original cast. (This original cast album was called "the offbeat theater offering of the year" by AllMusic.)
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