TREAD - A drama in Two Acts
Cast: 8 total 4 Female, 4 Male
Setting: Spring of 1927 in Oklahoma on a new section of paved highway (i.e. The future Route 66.) The action takes place in one night. It is sunset. A young family is following the highway construction where they take time to dance on the new patch of pavement. Why are they dancing on the highway? It turns out the mother has the ashes of her child molesting and abusive husband. She is pouring the ashes under the highway so his grave will be tread upon forever.TREAD was performed as part of the DC Black Theater Festival at the Source Theater in Washington, D.C.
MUSICALS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
POWER ANTS & HOPPERS
Book and Lyrics by Michael C. Stepowany
Music by Garrick Alden
Running time : 45 minutes
Setting: 7 foot tall blades of green grass are circled around the hut of Eartha
Cast: 8 total - Eartha – Female. One ‘Emcee’, 3 Ants, 3 Grasshoppers
Based on the Aesop’s Fable, the Ant & the Grasshopper.
It is summertime in the glen as Eartha Windinfire, or “Mother Nature” looks on from her hut, she referees a group of fun-loving grasshoppers and hard working ants. Told by the emcee, the story weaves the well-known tale of “never putting off till tomorrow.” As the seasons change the procrastinating grasshoppers pay the penalty by nearly freezing to death during the long winter months. Back from her trip to Miami, Eartha Windinfire summons the sun to thaw the Popsicle hoppers. As the musical ends, the Hoppers and Power Ants vow to always “take care of business” before setting out on a course of fun.
POWER ANTS & HOPPERS had a full summer tour with the Maryland National Capitol Park & Planning
Listen to a "PROCRASTINATE"
SUPERSTAR
Book and Lyrics by Michael C. Stepowany
Music by Garrick Alden
Running time: 45 MINS
Cast: 7 Any combination. One ‘Adult’ and Six Children Setting: A Junk Yard
The six children gather to express how they want to be famous athletes, performers etc. when the ‘Sky Wisher’ appears and promises to make them all ‘Superstars’
The Sky Wisher employs the various talents of the children to build their “Superstar Machine.” When the children pass through the machine; they have all remained the same. Sky then shows each of them how they are already ‘Superstars’ and to use their talents to propel them to their own super-stardom.
SUPERSTAR had a full summer tour with the Maryland National Capitol Park & Planning
Listen to "SUPERSTAR"
