Season At-A-Glance

Written by Ken Gale and Co-produced by the Walnut Valley Festival.

Set at the campgrounds during festival, the musical tells the story of a first-time attendee who finds love, family, and himself among the strummers and pickers who inhabit the festival campgrounds. Armed with a guitar, his best friend, and a new song, Dusty encounters the ethereal Celeste and falls hard. Along the way he meets Peg and the pickers of Pirate Camp, Cookie and the Mutineer camp strummers, and the mystical musical minions who inhabit the woods by the Walnut River.

The music and script were written by Ken Gale, who has attended Winfield, taken part in the NewSong Showcase, and writes musicals in his spare time. The Cast inclues Sarah McQuery as Peg, Jacob Giger as Dusty, John Moberly as Bobby, Seth Bate as Cookie, Maya Damron as Celeste and Jenny Muret Bate, Jordan Burford, Allison Hughes, David Hughes, Mary Jarvis, Gail Ranger, Seaf Bate and Chris Rogers as Campers at the Festival.

Written by Tennessee Williams.

Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. The father has left home; Tom supports his mother and sister with a shoe-factory job he finds unbearable. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a “gentleman caller” for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.

A 24 hour festival in which participants will write, direct, and act in a series of short, original works...all within a 24 hour period! 

Participants wanting to be involved will meet on February 10.

Performance will take place on February 11.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine.

Sunday in the Park with George is a musical inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist.