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A CONCORD THEATRICALS TITLE
Full-Length Musical, Drama / 7w
By Molly Newman and Barbara DamashekMusic and Lyrics by Barbara Damashek
Based on The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen
This joyous and moving celebration of American womanhood combines music, dance, movement and scenes of vivid dramatic intensity as it pays eloquent tribute to the courage and spirit of pioneering women.
Winner! 1984 Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh FestivalNominee: Six 1985 Tony Awards, including Best Musical
The story of a pioneer woman and her six daughters, Quilters blends a series of interrelated scenes into a rich mosaic capturing the sweep and beauty, the terror and joy, the harsh challenge and abiding rewards of frontier life. Illuminating stories contained in various patches or “blocks” with music, dance and drama, the action depicts the lot of women on the frontier: girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death. But, with this, there is also love, warmth, lively humor and the moving spectacle of simple human dignity in the face of adversity. In the end, when the various patches are assembled into one glorious, brilliantly colorful quilt, the effect is both breathtaking and magical – a theatrical masterstroke that will linger in the mind and memory long after the house lights have dimmed.
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After its 1982 world premiere at the Denver Center Theater Company and a 1983 run at the Kennedy Center, Quilters premiered on Broadway at the Jack Lawrence Theatre on 25 September 1984. Directed by Barbara Damashek, the production featured Lenka Peterson as Sarah, with Evalyn Baron, Marjorie Berman, Alma Cuervo, Lynn Lobban, Rosemary McNamara and Jennifer Parsons as the Daughters.
SARAH – The motherTHE DAUGHTERS – Jenny, Margaret, Lisa, Dana, Jody, and Jane
MUSICIANS, DAUGHTERS and SONS – to be played by cast
The American West. 19th century.
“Quilters is a show pieced together with love and stitched with pride… a thing of beauty, comfort and joy.” – New York Post
“Who would have thought that quilts, quilting – quilters – had so much joy and pain, laughter and tears, so much life, beauty and drama in them?” – Drama-Logue
“An unqualified success, as bright as the colors used in the quilts themselves.” – Hollywood Reporter
“A tender and moving theatre work, a human patchwork rippling in the breeze of memory.” – Newsweek
Quilters – Lamb’s Players Theatre Trailer
ACT I
1. Overture – Instrumental2. “Pieces of Lives” – Jenny, Company3. “Rocky Road” – Woman Six3a. Wagon Scene – Instrumental3b. Dugout Prologue – Instrumental4. “Little Babes” – Katie, Woman5. “Thread the Needle” – Woman One, Sarah, Company5a. Childbirth – Instrumental6. “Cornelia Song” – Child One, Child Five, Company7. “Windmill” – Frankie, June, Blades, Sarah, Company7a. Red Calico Wagon Ride – Instrumental8. “Washed in the Blood/Have You Been to Jesus?” – Company, Joy9. “The Butterfly Song” – Nurse, Offstage Voice10. “Pieces of Children’s Lives” – Company11. “Green, Green, Green” – Lily, Cyrus, Miss Jesse, Company11a. Four Doves – Instrumental12. “The Needle’s Eye” – Company, Pru, Aunt Mattie, Lavinia, Molly
ACT II
12a. Entracte – Instrumental12b. The Lone Star Waltz – Instrumental13. “Quiltin’ and Dreamin’” – Lou Ann, Company14. “Pieces of Lives/Double Wedding Rings” – Company, Cowboy John, Lou Ann14a. Secret Drawer – Instrumental15. “Every Log in My House” – Company16. Never Grow Old Prologue – Instrumental16a. “Who Will Count the Stitches” – Sarah16b. “Never Grow Old” – Emily, Company17. “Crosses and Losses/The Lord Don’t Rain Down Manna” – Company18. “Dandelion” – Two Women, Company18a. Tree of Life Waltz – Instrumental19. “Everything Has a Tune” – Company, Sarah, Two Others20. “Pieces of Lives/Hands, All Hands Around” – Company
8 Piano-Vocal (rehearsal only)1 Guitar 1 – Acoustic, Mandolin & Banjo1 Guitar 2 – Acoustic, Dulcimer & Banjo1 Harp – Opt. Flute & Spoons1 Violin – Opt. Cello & Bowed Gong1 Bass – Acoustic, Bass Drum + Gong (Opt.)
8 Piano-Vocal (rehearsal & performance)