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The Watchers
New Hampshire, 1907. Two old friends sit up all night keeping watch over the body of the third, an old New England tradition. All three younger selves join the story, handing objects and grievances across time, until forty-four years of grudges explode into the open.
- Form
- Musical, one act, 90 minutes
- Based on
- “Miss Tempy’s Watchers” by Sarah Orne Jewett
- Book and lyrics
- Josh Wellman
- Original music
- Doug Yetter
- New music
- Josh Wellman, Doug Yetter
- Status
- Original version workshopped (NYU). Expanded version unproduced.
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