In a musical tour-de-force, POLLY will relate the life of Polly Mathilda Merrill Colton from her teenage years in Shelby, Michigan, through her marriage, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and life in Nauvoo, Ill., to Utah with the Mormon Trek. POLLY is the remarkable story of woman, as she endures the timeless human struggle to reconcile faith with the experiences of our lives, fighting through the day to day and ordinary to the larger vision. It’s humorous, it’s touching, and best of all…it’s true!
(The image above is the cover of the CD of the Original Cast, Johanne Fréchette Perry, issued by Prime Recordings in 1992.)
PLAY DETAILS
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- NOTE: In a recent production, as Polly Colton is played through 3 ages, three females were chosen:
- a child Polly, a young Mother Polly, and a Grandmother Polly, all from the same family.
- Other casting variations could also be employed.
- 90 minutes
- Pioneer costumes
- Simple setting can be suggested or projected
- ORDER #2103
REVIEW EXCERPTS
“POLLY is a soaring triumph.” – Deseret News
“Written by songwriter Steven Kapp Perry, POLLY is a musical tour de force that has brought audiences to their feet night after night since a standing-room only premiere at BYU. Filled with memorable music…” — Provo Daily Herald
“Everyone, no matter how ordinary, has an interesting story to tell…The songs are tuneful and pretty, often funny, always well-written and intricately rhymed…Though Polly insists she’s quite unremarkable, by the end she — and we — realize that anyone who joins the LDS Church, crosses the plains, settles in the wilderness and lives to be 75 is pretty remarkable indeed. – Eric D. Snider [full review here]
“It celebrates the life of a woman.” – BYU Daily Universe
“It was brilliantly written and captured the inner feelings of a woman’s heart… [Perry] truly has a genuine talent with words that touch the strings of the heart…an enchanting performance…” UVU NEWS
PERUSAL MATERIALS
- ORIGINAL CAST CD : Available Soon
- ORIGINAL CAST DVD : Available Soon
SONG LIST: (titles in bold are demoed below)
- Act I-
- Overture
- Remarkable
- Milking a Cow
- The Ladies in the Carriages / Women’s Work #1
- Movers and Shakers
- Can’t Kiss Polly
- From Out of the Blue
- Women’s Work #2
- According to Your Light
- We Built a House / The Spirit of God
- Rocking Chair Lullaby / Women’s Work #3
- Thirty Days
- Thirty Days (reprise)
- The Little Things
- Women’s Work #4 / Will He Miss Polly?
- The Other Lives
- Act II-
- Salt Lake City!
- The Way of Things
- At the Campfire / Women’s Work #5
- Make a Space for Joy
- Lead Kindly Light / Movers and Shakers
DEMO SONGS from the original Cast Album: (containing a total of 21 tracks)
REHEARSAL/PERFORMANCE MATERIALS
(Any PDF purchased will be emailed to your email address — if you need to provide that to us (not the one on your PayPal account?), email us. CDs will be mailed to a snail mail address. Do not purchase rehearsal materials or pay for royalties until you have performance clearance from the publisher.)
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- Script in PDF format — Order #2103a : $30.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
- Partial Piano-Vocal Score in PDF format — Order #2103c : $40.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
- Vocal Book in PDF format — Order #2103b : $30.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
- First Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #2103d : (to be quoted upon application)
- Second Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #2103e :(to be quoted upon application
- Orchestrations (by Greg Hansen) in PDF format — Order #2103h : $150.00 [An 11-piece band] (parts consist of: Flute/Recorder, Oboe/English Horn, Horn, Banjo, Harmonica, Percussion, Piano, Keyboard2, Violin, Viola, Cello, from which you will be authorized to copy for your production
- PerformanceTrak digital Orchestra Files — Order #2103j — $200.00 (will be available for online download. The tracks include the same instrumentation as above orchestrations)
- Professional Royalties will be quoted upon application
- Script in PDF format — Order #2103a : $30.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)
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