Calamity Jane
Showed
Tuesday 27th to
Saturday 31th March 2007
The Story
'Calam' dresses like a man, totes a gun and drives the Deadwood City stagecoach. Well-meaning, but disaster-prone, she tries to help the local saloon proprietor out of a jam by promising to fetch a music-hall star from Chicago. A hilarious comedy, it nevertheless has many tender moments and some very famous numbers, including "Secret Love", "Black Hills of Dakota, "Deadwood Stage" and " Windy City".
Characters and cast |
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Calamity Jane |
The hard-bitten, gun-totin' heroine, who tries to behave like a man but can't help loving like a woman. In order to hold her own in a man's world, she dresses, speaks, rides and shoots like a man ; groomed and dressed in proper feminine fashion, she is revealed as a beautiful girl-and the transformation is quite startling. |
Wild Bill Hickock |
A handsome figure of a man, he is an ex-peace-officer turned professional gambler. Good-natured, with a sense of humour. In love with Calamity Jane, but doesn't know it. |
Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin |
A young officer attached to the nearby fort. He is the man Calamity Jane dreams about, but he falls in love with somebody quite different. |
Katie Brown |
A stage-struck city-girl who poses as a famous actress, but has good looks and talents of her own. |
Henry Miller |
Proprietor of " The Golden Garter ", Deadwood City's saloon-hotel-theatre. Aged about 50, he is nervous and erratic-giving the impression that he is constantly only one jump ahead of a nervous breakdown. |
Susan |
Miller's young, friendly and pretty niece. |
Francis Fryer |
A song-and-dance man more at home in the vaudeville theatres of the Eastern States than in the Wild West. |
Adelaide Adams |
A highly-paid vaudeville star and celebrated " beauty " of the period ; off-stage, a selfish and conceited woman. |
Rattlesnake |
A bewhiskered old fossil who drives the stage-coach. |
"Doc" Pierce |
Deadwood City 's doctor/undertaker, with doubtful qualifications but considerable experience. A poker-playing pal of Hickock's. |
Joe |
Bartender of "The Golden Garter" |
Hank and Pete |
Two Scouts. |
Colonel |
Musical Numbers
Act I
Deadwood Stage
Adelaide
Everyone Complains About
the Weather
Weather Dance
Men
Careless with the Truth
A Hive Full of Honey
Adelaide 's Ballet
Weather Dance lesson
I Can Do Without You
'Tis Harry I'm Planning to Marry
Windy City
Keep It Under Your Hat
Exaggeration Ballet
Act II
A Woman's Touch
Higher Than a Hawk
Love You Dearly
The Black Hills of Dakota
Secret Love