JACK KYRIELEISON (1950 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Jack Kyrieleison
Cowboy's Carol, A |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 3 children, onstage band of 4 musicians | |||||
| Notes: | Book by Jack Kyrieleison, Original Music by John Aschenbrenner, Original Lyrics by Jack Kyrieleison. | |||||
| Synopsis: | If Charles Dickens and Hollywood legend John Ford had met, the results might have been A Cowboy's Carol. Inspired by Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," this family musical tells a tale of intolerance, greed and rebirth where 3 cultures collide on the New Mexico border. A group of singing cowboys take us on a Christmas Eve journey into the dark heart of Ethan Scrawlett--"the man who rides alone." With 8 new songs in the cowboy tradition, and 4 traditional Mexican songs, including the haunting Las Posadas celebration | |||||
Reunion: A Musical Epic in Miniature |
| 1st Produced: | Goodspeed Opera House | 1996 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | Book by Jack Kyrieleison. Story by Jack Kyrieleison & Ron Holgate. Traditional music adapted by Michael O'Flaherty. First produced by the Goodspeed Opera House as "Battle Cry of Freedom". Subsequently produced off-Broadway by Eugene Kallman and AMAS Music | |||||
| Synopsis: | A moving musical narrative of the Civil War, told in the words of the very diverse men and women who sided with the Union. Presented as a musical entertainment years after the events by the rag-tag company of actor Harry Hawk, the man who stood alone on stage when Lincoln was shot by Booth. | |||||