Calamity Jane

Minack Theatre

May 2003

Director – Lizzy Ross

Choreographer – Matthew Chandler

Music Director – James Mablin, Philip Shute

Production Manager – Wesley Henderson Roe

Calamity Jane (A Musical Western) is a stage play and musical loosely based on tales from the life of Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary).
The stage play was adapted in the 1960s after the Warner Brothers highly successful 1953 film Calamity Jane. Doris Day and Howard Keel starred in the original film. Music, lyrics and libretto of the subsequent stage play and musical were adapted after the Warner Brothers film. Libretto for “Calamity Jane A Musical Western” was adapted by Ronald Harner and Phil Park from the stage play by Charles K. Freeman after the film, which was written by James O’Hanlon.

CAST

Calamity Jane – Sarah Trotman

Wild Bill Hickock – Martin Wilcox

Lt. Danny Gilmartin – Hamilton Faber

Katie Brown – Maria Waters

Adelaide Adams – Robbin Pierce

Francis Fryer – Terry Saunders

Susan – Katie Gagen

Henry Miller – Jim Trimmer

Mrs Flo Miller – Jane Poole-Wilson

Doc Pierce – Stephen King

Mrs Pierce – Sheila Donovan

Miss Pierce – Beckie Stewart

Rattlesnake – Bob Salter

Joe – Joe Hall

Hank – Roger Fairhead

Pete – Mouse Chalmers

Colonel – Brian Campbell

Prospector – Mark Wakeford

Charlie – John Timperley

Saloon Gals – Alison Birtle, Lizzie Brignall, Fiona Gourlay, Janet Simpson, Angela Sturgeon

Dancers – Clare Burgess, Jan Croxson, Cathy Makepeace, Faye Rogers, Hannah Rogers

Cowboys – Mark Burgess, Miles Gibson, Charles Halford

Cowgirls – Debbie McDowell, Nicole McInerney

Townswomen – Louise Delany, Ruth Sanders

CREW

Set designer – Wesley Henderson Roe