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I Married Wyatt Earp A New Musical Book by Thomas Edward West & Sheilah Rae Music by Michele Brourman Lyrics by Sheilah Rae Suggested in part by the book “I Married Wyatt Earp" by Glenn G. Boyer (c) 1976, Historical Research Associates Directed by Cara Reichel Choreography by Joe Barros Musical Director Remy Kurs Set Designer Ann Bartek Costume Designer Ryan J. Moller Lighting Designer Jorge Arroyo Sound Designer Andy Leviss Stage Manager Naomi Anhorn* Production Manager Jason C. Najjoum May 20, 2011—June 12, 20011 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th St, NYC) www.59e59.org

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It's time to set the record straight. Young Josie Marcus is nothing like the girls back home. Passionate and fearless, she leaves behind her upper-class Jewish family for the adventure of Tombstone, Arizona—home of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, and site of the infamous Shootout at the O.K. Corral. Decades later, Josie must finally come to terms with the 30-second gunfight that led her to a lifetime of regret. Weaving together 1944 Hollywood and the mythic Wild West, I Married Wyatt Earp sheds new light on one of history’s most fictionalized moments. Eleven gutsy women give voice to the untold story of the American frontier in this compelling new musical.

Featuring:  Anastasia Barzee*, Mishaela Faucher*, Laura Hankin, Carol Linnea Johnson*,
Heather Mac Rae*, Cara Massey*, Carolyn Mignini*, Ariela Morgenstern*, Karla Mosley*,
Stephanie Palumbo, & Tina Stafford*
*Member, Actors' Equity Association, Equity Approved Showcase

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I Married Wyatt Earp is a part of 59E59 Theater's "Americas Off Broadway" series,
and is co-produced by Prospect Theater Company and New York Theatre Barn.

 

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
New York Theatre Barn is about to embark on its largest feat yet – the company has partnered with Prospect Theater Company (now in its 11th season) to produce a production of the new musicalI Married Wyatt Earp, written by Michele Brourman (Dangerous Beauty), Sheilah Rae (Funny, You Don't Look Like A Grandmother) & Thomas Edward West (Enchanted Cottage). Prospect is also a non-profit theatre company with a mission to connect communities of artists and audiences to each other and to theatrical history by re-interpreting classic plays and musicals, and to use these connections to collaboratively create new works. Prospect strives to connect theater’s present to its past—in order to build its future. New York Theatre Barn is thrilled about the collaboration with Prospect and couldn’t imagine a better fit as the company takes a giant leap forward.

Since its inception, New York Theatre Barn has been instrumental in the development of the new musical I Married Wyatt Earp. New York Theatre Barn’s artistic director, Joe Barros, first saw the musical while a student at The Hartt School of Music and was heavily inspired and moved by the experience. The need to produce and expose vital new work such as I Married Wyatt Earp planted the seed to create a company to harbor and nurture these new shows. Shortly after the company launched in 2007, New York Theatre Barn produced a reading of I Married Wyatt Earp with direction by Tony-nominee Graciela Daniele (Ragtime, Once on this Island) and featuring Tovah Feldshuh (Golda’s Balcony, Irena’s Vow), Cass Morgan (Memphis), Montego Glover (Memphis), Ann Crumb (Aspects of Love, Anna Karenina), Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre) and more.

HISTORICAL NOTE
The story of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday has become American legend. The political and socio-economic events which led up to the Shootout at the OK Corral have been dramatized in over 54 movies and 13 television shows, but the story of the unconquerable, gutsy women in Tombstone who loved and lived with these lawmen and outlaws has never been told. This show is an attempt to recreate their untold story. It is also a look back at a period in history where myth obscured truth, and continues to persist as myth.

AUTHORS’ NOTE
“I Married Wyatt Earp: the Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus” by Glenn Boyer first attracted bookwriter and lyricist Sheilah Rae’s attention when she was skimming another book called Pioneer Jews by Harriet and Fred Rochlin.  In a chapter called ‘Humdingers’, she ran across the scandalous (for the 1880’s) photograph of Josie Marcus.  Reading about Josie’s adventurous life, Sheilah immediately decided that this was indeed the ‘stuff of musicals’!  In researching the period and these characters, co-bookwriter Thomas Edward West and Sheilah realized how little had changed in the world for women:  they are still victims of abuse and drug addiction, still live in fear of their men coming home safely.  And, of course, the time period was attractive to composer Michele Brourman, because of the enormous palette of musical colors the period offered: western, folk, G&S, saloon songs, Americana.  The writing team set out to create the telling of a unique story, but chose to tell it through the women’s eyes only, so as not to compete with the many versions of the Earp myth that already existed — hopeful that telling this story from the women’s perspective would shed a new light on the contribution of women to the development of the West, a story rarely told.


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