SACAGEWEA
Book and Lyrics by Mary Bracken Phillips, Music by Craig Bohmler
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Cast Size: 16-20
3 leads (2M, 1W)
9 supporting roles (8M, including 1 African American M, 1 Native American M, and 1 Native American W)
An ensemble of 2 Native American W and 2M who play various Indian characters"
An optional ensemble of 4 men who play various members of The Corps Of Discovery
synopsis
SACAGAWEA explores the "Voyage Of Discovery" of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the relationship between Lewis, Clark and the expedition's young Indian guide, Sacagawea. This expedition stands as one of the best known examples of American courage and idealism in this country's history: A voyage which was announced to the public as purely scientific, yet who's real purpose was economic and national expansion; A voyage who's ideals were to establish a country of "free and equal" men from ocean to ocean, yet whose commanders thought nothing of bringing along a black slave, or hiring a woman whose husband won her in a card game; An expedition who's captains were told to study the Indian tribes along the way and "assure them of our friendship", when all along Jefferson intended to move them out of the way of American settlers and place them on "a large and pleasant reservation."
This musical traces the journey of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific and , with the budding romance between Clark and Sacagawea set against the tortured mind of Meriwether Lewis. As Sacagawea accompanies these men through hostile territory, she becomes a strong and independent woman who finds that she can neither exist among her own people nor the world of the white man. A true but unsettled democracy develops on the journey as Clark’s slave York and Sacagawea are given equal votes with the rest of the corps.
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