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A Minor Variation

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An aging widow finds new hope in her long-lost ambition to be a jazz singer.

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Cast

Perry SmithJackie
Abdul Salaam El RazzacTarquin
Benjamin OchiengFigs
Wilson Jermaine HerediaRay
Elisabeth AnisimowYoung Jackie
Jamie DiamondGenerous Woman
Channing McKindraCasting Panel #1
C. Ronald McPhersonTrain Clerk
Ruben RabasaTaxi Driver
Robert Paul TaylorJackie's Father

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Director: Sal Lahoud
Writers: Sal Lahoud
Original language: English

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Tumbledown20166.4
Lulu on the Bridge19986.2
New York, New York19776.2
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day20087.0
The Face of Love20135.4
Forever My Girl20184.4
Born to Be Blue20157.5
Young Man with a Horn19507.1
Florence Foster Jenkins20167.8
The Young One19608.7
Shadows19608.8
Dead Again19917.2

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