Sailing Through Time -  The Enchanted Musical

a musical play in two acts

Sailing Through Time The Enchanted Musical is a full-length production that whimsically draws inspiration from the canon of musicals such as The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Into the Woods, Once Upon a Mattress, and Wicked. Sailing Through Time - The Enchanted Musical invokes the power of family, love and dreams to overcome the wickedness found in a scary outside world.

The script of Sailing Through Time - The Enchanted Musical forms a modern fairy tale with all the trappings of a very good piece of theatre; it is great entertainment for the entire family. Adults will find reminders of the joys and fears that encapsulate the wonder of childhood while kids will be engrossed with the suspense and comic relief they crave.

Families will revel as the characters have their secrets and feelings revealed while they take risks and display feats of individual determination over the course of 18 heartfelt ballads and wonderful melodies that skillfully enhance the plot of the script.

Sailing Through Time - The Enchanted Musical is an adaptation of St. Louis author, Jon Goeder's book, The Night of the Millionth Dream, Revisited. The play is the result of collaboration between Don Bryant Bailey and Shannon Sturgis, who wrote the play, and St. Louis composer/lyricist/actor Kevin Kurth, who arranged the score and composed some of the music while Goeders wrote most of the songs. This is the second collaboration for Bailey and Kurth, coming on the heels of their very well received Make Me A Cowboy - A New Western Musical Comedy. They have finished  working on a Christmas sequel to their "Cowboy" musical.

Musical/Comedy

6 women, 6 men (doubling, flexible casting)

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR

Mary was a "tattletale dreamer". People said she had bad dreams, though really, they were not bad dreams. They were dreams about her long-lost brother, Billy. John, Mary's husband, was writer with a bad case of writer’s block and a book dateline to meet. To give John a reprieve from her distracting dreams, Mary decides to take her son, Joey and go to Spindlenook, her family’s summer cottage, to spend the weekend with Mary’s mother. Spindlenook was a strange place, where many unexplained things had happened to her family. One night, Mary fell into a deep sleep and dreamed the most important dream of her life, one so real, it had the possibility to put the pieces of her family’s past back together or shatter her life forever. It is a dream where she lost Joey but she found Billy, who joins Mary on a quest to find Joey with the aid three good witches; Windy, the jolly wind warrior; Intelleena, the Enchantress of the Wisdom Tree while battling the evil Dirty Eye, the King of the Peerats. Come along and experience the adventures that Mary and her family take as they journey through time and space through a fanciful dreamland filled with magical folks and delightful music.