THE SAGA OF SASQUATCH C’LONE: DOC HOLLIDAYS ELECTRONIC MEDICINE SHOW

The Battle of the Bottles

Book by Jon Robert Howe and Coni Koepfinger

Music by C. Michael Perry

Lyrics by C. Michael Perry & Jon Robert Howe

A cast of 7 plus the piano-player, who often gets in on the action. Frontier sets, costumes and props with plenty of anachronisms. Two competing Medicine Shows: “Doc Holliday’s Electronic Medicine Show” vs. “Slickery Q. Slidey’s Toilet Water Tableaux”. They both sell Sasquatch C’lone, which they both claim to manufacture from a secret recipe. Doc sells bottle after bottle. Slickery sells … well, less than that, at least not at Doc’s price. Slickery is jealous, too jealous, because he is, after all, the bottler of all the C’lone ever made. He just can’t sell much of it to anyone but Doc, because Doc has the machine to distribute it: The Buckskin-Talky-Picture-In-A-Box, broadcast on the Saddle-light Broadcasting System, to cabins and fine homes across Pioneer America. Doc suspects something as Slickery carefully hides his alter-ego, Anhoser Babushka, the world famous inventor and bottler of the C’lone. The Battle of the Bottles winds its way through mayhem, hilarity, hokum and a lot of just plain downright fun, which includes side-splitingly embarrassing audience participation (a la Game Shows), until the bottles are in the hands of those who can keep the legend of the Sasquatch alive, the customers, and all are happy campers, uh, Frontiersmen, em, Pioneer Entrepreneurs of Titillating Tonsorial Delights.

NON-VOCAL SONG SAMPLES: made from the Finale Music Notation Files