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Jerry Jackson Producer ?╟≤ Director ?╟≤ Choreographer ?╟≤ Writer ?╟≤ Designer ?╟≤ Composer A Brief Background Jerry Jackson has often been called a ?╟úRenaissance Man?╟Ñ as he has the ability to write, produce, direct and choreograph shows as well as the facility to design costumes, compose music and write lyrics. While staying on top of the latest trends in entertainment, fashion, music and dance, he accomplishes each endeavor with a sense of history, technique and showmanship. In fact, his ?╟úRevue Spectaculars?╟Ñ are created with such style that ninety per cent of them run uny where from three to ten years. /</ It is no accident that Jackson is so versatile. While a student at the University of California at Los Angeles acquiring a Masters Degree in Art, he worked as an Assistant Student Professor in the Music Department, and was also a professional photographer, photographing for Saks Fifth Avenue as welFascportraits for many stars. Upon graduating he worked as a regular dancer on the Danny Kaye Show and assisted Hermes Pan, Fred Astaire?╟╓s choreographer. In 1966, he was asked to choreograph the 100th Anniversary of the in Paris. Since then he has gained a reputation as ?╟úInternational Showman Par Excellence?╟Ñ. His work has received standing ovations from Broadway audiences to the Bolshoi Ballet in Paris. A Revue of Gasseat Folies July 22,1991 issue of the weekly New York magazine TheatreWeek Article entitled Vegas - Limbo in Neon by Charles Marowitz Jubilee ?╟ú...the cast is made up, in a very literal sense of showmen and showgirls who exist to display sumptuous costumes and hulk about extravagant set-pieces. Performers are strictly subordinated to stage effects.?╟Ñ Excalibur ?╟ú...where the dead come to wile away the time before being assigned their final destinations (watching) the Excalibur?╟╓s twice-nightly entertainment which is an American football game disguised as a medieval joust.?╟Ñ 4 ?╟  Boylesque ?╟ú...best moments are when (Kenny) Kerr waltzes down the runway and indulges in a lot of breezy, phallic wisecrack - what you might call the drag artist?╟╓s cock-in-trade.?╟Ñ ?╟úFolies Bergere, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary at the Tropicana, is much more sprightly and firmly packed. Staged and choreographed by Jerry Jackson, it moves with the precision of a set of tumbling dominoes and vaunts the kind of design flair that, were it on view in a Broadway musical, would be the talk of the town. (It) brings to mind that there is nothing ?╟úmere?╟Ñ about entertainment. The gusto, fluidity and choreographic invention that sustains ?╟ Folies Bergere?╟╓ is a real achievement wherever one might encounter it...?╟╓Folies?╟╓ has the fanciest hoofers and the most aesthetically pleasing showgirls and is a marvel of synchronized stage effects.?╟Ñ