by barbarah_admin | Mar 23, 2023
In 1961 in Tierra Nueva, the only journalism job Rita can land is society reporting. She covers the “surprise” engagement party [“It’s Hard To Sit Still”] for Jorge, from one of that nation’s leading families. Jorge leaves the party to pick up Elaine, a graduate...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
“think no more of him now as your brother. He is dead to us now. With these words Edwin Booth, the great American actor, would commence a tortured existence. His infamous brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. In the search for the...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
Somber townspeople gather in a square dominated by a platform and pillory on one side and a prison on the other. They sing of Puritan values and their sense of community in the hymn-like A Massachusetts Blessing (Song 1). A strident voice cries out scornfully,...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
The musical begins on the plantation of John Wayles (Jefferson’s father-in-law), where the slaves sing When I Cross That River (Song 1), a rousing spiritual that reflects their lives of hard work and their hopes for the future. Sally is the teenage daughter of...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
A Page from the Christmas Story is a 35-minute musical for youth, written for unison choir with optional two and three- part choruses. It has opportunities for 14 characters, but many of the speaking parts may be combined or divided as needed. The title character,...
