DANCING ON DADDY’S SHOES — a memory play as a daughter looks fondly back on the Daddy she lost in the war. Book and Lyrics by Sheila Rinear Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry LYRIC TO DANCING ON DADDY’S SHOES (first draft) © 2017 by C. Michael Perry Life was the fantasy Every little […]
CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Book Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry This is Dickens’ other Christmas carol. The magic of life is evident in the Peerybingle household with a happy marriage and a newborn son. Two houses are blessed by the lucky Crickets: The Peerybingles, the Plummers, with Mr. Tackleton’s awaiting the blessing of […]
Book, Music and Lyrics by James G. Lambert & C. Michael Perry A love story, like all operettas, in the style of “New Moon”, “Desert Song” and “Naughty Marietta”. But this one is set in the romantic atmosphere of the California Gold Rush. It spins the tale of the dashing Mexican-American Robin Hood figure of […]
Book and Lyrics by Thomas F. Rogers Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry A musical spanning and contrasting the years from Saul’s Kingship, when David slew Goliath, through to Solomon’s building of the temple in Jerusalem. A gripping musical drama. COMMENT/REVIEW POSTED ON NEW PLAY EXCHANGE: “A very thorough treatment of the Old Testament […]
Book by Elizabeth Hansen Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry Christmas Eve in 1943. The war still rages in Europe and the Pacific, as, outside of Cleveland, Ohio, WCCR, a small radio station, struggles to survive not only the worst blizzard in 100 years, but with the fact that it’s pretty near broke. “Christmas […]
Script and Lyrics by Eric Samuelsen Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry The power and purpose of the Book of Mormon come to the forefront in this unique celebration of its message, interpreted by “likening the Scriptures” for modern audiences. We become part of some of the greatest stories and moments in the Book […]
PINOCCHIA A Musical about a Little Wooden Girl BOOK and LYRICS by JUNE RACHELSON-OSPA MUSIC and LYRICS by C. MICHAEL PERRY PINOCCHIA wants to be a real girl in this post-apocalyptic world where her long-lost brother, Pinocchio, made it to the Big Time. This show also takes us back to a beginning of the tale, […]
Book by Charles W. Whitman Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry Additional Material by Michael Evenden Thrill to the “War Prayer”! Laugh and cry at the new version of “The Diary Of Adam and Eve” It’s a wonderful show fully packed with Tom, Huck, Becky, Edward Tudor, Tom Canty, Sir Boss and Sandy, The McWilliams’ […]
Book and Lyrics by Orson Scott Card Music by C. Michael Perry At the end of the persecutions of the Mormons in Missouri, Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Sidney Rigdon and three others were imprisoned in a jail at Liberty, Missouri. The conflicts that arose there and the friendships that were formed shaped the future history […]
Book and Lyrics by Elizabeth Hansen Music and Lyrics by C. Michael Perry We come to know Lucy Mack Smith. It is 1855. She is near death and has compiled her memoirs into a biography of her son, Joseph Smith – – The Prophet. She has a young visitor who is interviewing her for the […]
