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It’s Christmas Eve on the range, where a group of cowboys share the ballad of a ruthless cattle baron’s comeuppance. Spurred by 3 frontier phantoms, Judge Ethan Scrawlett reluctantly relives his life from the Santa Fe Trail to Boot Hill, meeting along the way his lost Mexican love, a sultry saloon owner, her Apache ward, his despised half-breed nephew and others straight from the Old West of fact and mythology. Dickens’ beloved Christmas staple is reimagined as a muscular cross-cultural tale of greed and racial intolerance, filled with the music of singing cowboys, rambunctious dance halls and Mexican fiestas.
If the great filmmaker John Ford had known Charles Dickens, the result might have been A Cowboy’s Carol. A witty celebration of both A Christmas Carol and the Old West, A Cowboy’s Carol is a delightful new two-act musical, with music by John Aschenbrenner and book and lyrics by Jack Kyrieleison. Its ageless appeal and timeless message of tolerance and our need for community make it a perfect holiday event with appeal to all ages. The original and uniquely American score includes 8 new songs inspired by the music of the American West, as well as 4 traditional Mexican songs--including the beautiful candlelit Christmas Eve ritual, Las Posadas, still celebrated yearly by millions of Hispanics.
By turns funny, dark and heartwarming, A Cowboy's Carol is unlike any version of Dickens' relentlessly performed classic you've ever seen, with extra dividends for anyone even a little familiar with the great Westerns of Hollywood's Golden Era.
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