By Jill Draper
If you want to see “Nelly Don the Musical Movie” on the big screen, your time is limited—probably one or two more weeks, say the owners of Glenwood Arts Theater in Overland Park, where the made-in-Kansas City film has been playing at least once a week for more than a year and a half.
The film’s director/producer Terence O’Malley of south KC celebrated a milestone on May 21 when the theater announced Nelly Don had surpassed the 85-week run of “The Gods Must Be Crazy” in 1986. Some 180 people attended a special showing last month.
O’Malley plans to make streaming arrangements for the film, but only after its theatrical run is finished. Until then, a small exhibit of Nelly Don dresses will remain in the theater lobby.
Meanwhile, he says Fort Osage High School near Independence will be the first school to produce his play about Nelly Don, and he’s working on another musical about Harry Truman and Tom Pendergast.
“Nelly Don the Musical Movie” is a true story about Nell Donnelly, a self-made millionaire who ignited a fashion revolution in the early 1900s to become a global sensation. Her story includes an abusive husband, an affair with a U.S. senator and a mobster-linked abduction.
“Kansas City has so much to offer in terms of mining really great stories,” says O’Malley, an attorney and Mafia history expert.
Get tickets at fineartsgroup.com.
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