From the playwright...

We are now 15 days away from opening.  Seven years after I began writing the show.  2 ½ months since we held auditions. 

Our director, Patti Woolsey is an amazing director – and dramaturg; her vision of how to present the show is brilliant.  Greg Watkins is a stellar music director.  The cast – well you’ll just have to see ‘em to believe ‘em.

The show has 18 original songs and an original story inspired by my father and mother.  It examines the complex and often inconsistent beliefs and values held by those most closely affected by war – soldiers sent to fight and those on the home front wanting so desperately to believe in the cause that has taken their loved ones away.  In this ensemble piece, three unlikely couples are brought together because of the military.  Miriam is a pacifist married, as only fate would have it, to Ray an Army officer with a love of Greek mythology, nature…and music. Jeanette, from a wealthy New England family has fallen in love with a sharecropper’s son – now an Army chaplain.  And David – a reporter haunted by a tragedy he witnessed, falls in love with Eddie – who joins the military to prove himself.  

Someone asked me what words I would use to describe the piece.  I like to think audiences will find it provocative, visceral, humorous, entertaining, heartbreaking – and hopeful.

George.-