| REBEL CRY
Book & Lyrics by Linda Nell Cooper, Music by David Legg
Dramatic Musical
REBEL CRY was a finalist in the 2003 David Mark Cohen National
Playwriting Award sponsored by the Kennedy Center.
Based on a true story of female Civil War spies, Rebel
Cry is set outside of Richmond, VA, towards the end of
the Civil War. With 2 plots that intersect at the climax,
the story is part romance and part intrigue. The first storyline
involves Elizabeth van Lew who runs a ring of Northern spies
in and out of Richmond right under the noses of her Southern
neighbors and friends, including the aristocratic men who
form the infamous Company F of the Virginia 21st. The second
storyline involves Blake Donavon, an Irish bondservant who
fights in place of Cecil Barrington, a prejudiced Southern
aristocrat. With music flavored with spirituals and contemporary
Broadway ballads, it has the same feel as Les Mis
or Ragtime. The show does not require a set and has
roles for 8 men and 11 women, as well as room for a large
chorus of soldiers and women spies. Rebel Cry was
premiered at Liberty University Theatre in Lynchburg, VA,
and participated in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival for 2003. Lyrics for Rebel Cry were a semifinalist
in the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theater competition in New
York City. Linda Nell Cooper is a registered songwriter with
BMI, Inc. in New York City. David Legg, composer, received
his MFA in musical theater from NYU and now resides in New
York City as a professional composer/arranger/orchestrator.
Click here for the cast recording
of REBEL CRY
    
    
   
photos courtesy of Albert Sites
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