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Janus Cercone

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Book Writer

Janus Cercone is an American writer who, with Warren Leight, wrote the book for the musical Leap of Faith (2012), adapted from her own 1992 film screenplay.

Also credited on1 work

Leap of Faith

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature2 passages

  • This woman was Marla, a combination of two characters that Janus Cercone had created for her 1992 film: Marva, a waitress, and Will, a sheriff who’d harass Jonas. That made for a nice surprise when Cercone and cowriter Warren Leight had Marla reveal to Jonas that she was Sweetwater’s sheriff. But the book writers weren’t wise to include t…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Nominees: Douglas Carter Beane, Lysistrata Jones; Janus Cercone and Warren Leight, Leap of Faith, Joy Gregory, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World: Michael John LaChiusa, Queen of the Mist, Thomas Meehan and Peter Stone, Death Takes a Holiday Outstanding Orchestrations: Martin Lowe, Once Nominees: Bill Elliott, Wice Work If You Can Get It…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2011-12 Season, v. 68 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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