Charles Deemer

CHANGING KEY
A video hyperdrama
and lecture-demonstration

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"CHANGING KEY"
A hyperdrama video

THE CAST:

John Donnelly
Kate Mura
Hollie Olson ("Heidi")
Robert Peate
Robert Projansky ("Bobby")
Judith Richmond
Dennis Tracy

THE STORY:

Dennis is a once-famous jazz pianist and addict. In a final attempt to get straight, he has put himself under "house arrest" in the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Judith and John. Under no condition are they to let him out of their sight. Here Dennis also will be close to his daughter, Kate, for moral support. Learning Dennis is in town, a writer/photographer (Robert) arranges to do a story on a musician he greatly respects. But then two old friends of Dennis from the "good old days", Heidi and Bobby, arrive, and suddenly the notion of being under house arrest doesn't look as attractive as it once did. And our story begins.

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