Lumberjacks and Weddingbelles


Book by Tim Kelly
Music and lyrics by Larry Nestor

Cast:  10M, 14F, chorus, extras
Set:  Simple area set
Time:  About 2 hours

Script:  $6.25           Move your mouse here to see additional items Piano score:  $20.00
Vocal score:  $8.00
Production/rehearsal CD set:  $65.00
CD sampler M:  $4.00
DVD of amateur performance:  $10.00
Orchestral Parts [Clarinet I & II, Flute, Trumpet I & II, Trombone, Bass/guitar,
Percussion]:  $6.00

Royalty:  $90 First performance/$80 Each additional performance

Washington Territory is shy on marriageable females, so Asa, an enterprising lawyer, sails to Boston and fetches a group of prospective brides.  At first the girls don't like the rough life, especially when the belles discover they have an enemy in the horrible Scrubbs family, consisting of cantankerous Ma, her ox of a son and Ma's two boy-crazy daughters.  They hate lumberjacks because they cut down trees and that's bad for "trappin' critters."  When the villainous (and funny) Mayor Crook discovers Asa is running for the Territorial Legislature, an office he aspires to, Crook conspires to discredit Asa.  Asa and some of the ladies land in jail!  But, of course, the bad guys are defeated as all manner of musical mirth breaks out.  Yahoo!


Song samples
What's a Man Without a Wife

Lumberjacks and Weddingbelles

We Was Here First

Is This What Love Is Like?

Happy Hoedown

Home Sweet Home

Could You Love Me?

Stay in the Sunshine

Boston by the Bay

Never Say Die

That Old Wooden Box

There's Gonna Be a Trial

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Paul Bunyan and the Hard Winter
The Ransom of Red Chief
Robin Hood — The Musical
The Wild, Wild, Wildest West
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