Summer 2024 Shows
Presented By Visit Boulder & Create Boulder
Dig Deep
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Michelle Uyemura
Dig Deep is a one-act Children’s Bluegrass musical that tells the story of a homely flower who learns the value of hard work and self worth.
It’s Charlotte’s Web meets Honk! with a spritz of Dolly Parton to sweeten the deal.
Narrated by an insightful worm and a sassy bird, Dig Deep begins with two flowers growing in a meadow by a pond. Agatha is an overlooked, exceptionally plain flower; especially compared to Jewel who is incredibly beautiful and showered with attention. While Jewel is watered and doted upon, Agatha goes unnoticed and is left to struggle to get water on her own. In Agatha’s journey she becomes friends with an aggrieved but charming skunk who has his own set of challenges. Together they battle discrimination and self-doubt to discover that life’s greatest gifts aren’t given, they are earned.
Lucy Larcom
Book, Music, & Lyrics by AJ Layague
In 1836 Massachusetts we meet bookish Lucy Larcom, age 14, and her mother and sisters as they tackle their endless daily chores. Lucy longs for time to write poetry. Their idyllic family life is cut short when their beloved father, Captain Larcom, tragically dies at sea, and older sister Emmeline marries and moves away.
Her mother opens a boarding house and Lucy works in the mill where she meets other mill girls. Working conditions and conflict with the foreman lead to an explosive climax powered by the support and strength of the mill girls who eventually join Lucy in writing and publishing their stories and poetry.
Zelda’s Girls
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Shelby Merchant
Jumping between the tumultuous 1920s and modern day, Zelda's Girls tells the story of the notorious Zelda Fitzgerald and her lasting impact. In the past, Zelda and her husband, novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, navigate fame, mental health, and the American dream through a sped up timeline of their lives. Today, 4 college girls are thrown together by a class project, finding friendship, understanding, and in one case, love, through their shared admiration for the original flapper.