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Nov 7, 2015 · Jim Sharman is going through a bit of a time warp. Sharman, 70, is a celebrated theater and opera director in his native Australia with dozens of productions to his credit.
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Jim Sharman. Director: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jim Sharman spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966. Sharman became interested in directing experimental theatre. While directing the Sydney production of Hair ...
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Jim Sharman was born 12 March 1945 in Sydney, Australia, as James David Sharman. He spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966. Sharman became interested in directing ...
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Aug 5, 2008 · Aug 5 2008. To coincide with the release of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shock Treatment director Jim Sharman's new memoir, Blood & Tinsel, the RHPS Official Fan Club was granted permission to ask a few questions submitted by you, the fans. For more information on the director and the memoir, visit www.bloodandtinsel.com .
Mar 4, 2013 · Then Jim Sharman, the director of Jesus Christ Superstar, asked me to audition for a play at London's Royal Court.There I met Richard Hartley, who was writing its incidental music. One night, Jim ...
James "Jim" Sharman is a director and writer for film and stage with over 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, but is probably best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment.
And so Jim Sharman, after seven years directing blockbuster musicals around the world, comes back to Australia to reconnect with his roots. He turns down invitations to direct Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita in London and instead takes up with novelist and nobel laureate Patrick White, another Australian prodigal son returned from Europe. Sharman ...
