This Double Bill presentation is a staged reading of excerpts from After the Rain & Cowboy Tempest Cabaret. Both shows are currently in development and this showcase will not contain any production elements or staging.
AFTER THE RAIN
Co-Commissioned and Co-Developed by The Musical Stage Company and Tarragon Theatre
Book by Rose Napoli
Music & Lyrics by Suzy Wilde
Suzie Evans Stone is a struggling composer who sings backup in her parent’s band but pays her bills by secretly teaching piano lessons. Her life takes an unforeseen turn when she accepts a new terminally ill adult student only interested in mastering Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedie No.1”. After the Rain is a transcendent theatrical experience, based on a true story, that unflinchingly embraces life’s complexities and healing power of music.
COWBOY TEMPEST CABARET
Book by Niall McNeil, Lucy McNulty & Anton Lipovetsky,
Music by Anton Lipovetsky
Lyrics by Niall McNeil
Guns and magic. Love and hurt. When gunslinger Prospero conjures a storm in the desert, he begins a chain of events that forces every cowboy and spirit into a fight for freedom. Created by an artist with Down Syndrome and his longtime collaborators, Cowboy Tempest Cabaret is a totally lawless adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest musicalized in the styles of rock, folk and country & western music.
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Co-Commissioned and Co-Developed by The Musical Stage Company and Tarragon Theatre.
After the Rain was originally developed with support from Tarragon Theatre, later co-commissioned by Tarragon Theatre and The Musical Stage Company with additional funding from the Bulmash-Siegel Foundation and the Aubrey & Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals.
COWBOY TEMPEST CABARET is Commissioned and Developed by The Musical Stage Company
Sustaining Creative Support
New Works Development Sponsor
Canadian Festival of New Musicals Leading Light
Andrew Gillespie
Additional Development Support
Lucy White
Commissioned with funding from the Aubrey & Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals.
Cowboy Tempest Cabaret Access Supporter
National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Impact & Exploration Fund
