HOME AND THE RIVER

Composed by George Quincy Libretto by Benjamin Barber
Conducted by John Yaffé Directed by Nancy Rhodes

Musical Preparation & Musical Direction by George Quincy
Dramaturgy by Nancy Rhodes
Patricia Stone, Production Stage Manager
Nicholas Netos, Managing Director

CAST (in order of appearance)
Mate, Ol’ Jim (Daniel Egan)
Isaac, Lester (James Archie Worley)
Red (Eric W. Lamp)
Sergeant Darcy (Timothy LaFontaine)
Samuel, Joe (Michael Niemann)
Peg Darcy (Kathy Enders)
Rebekah Judd (James Richard Werner)
Colonel Jason Judd (James Richard Werner)
Susan (Karen Leah)
Captain Palmer (Michael Lofton)
Jezz (Annette Daniels)
Blaine (Eugene Green)
Medora (Louisa Parks)
Jeremy (Jeffrey Mandelbaum)

Act I

  1. A wharf in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1862

  2. Aboard the river boat, Argos

  3. Blaine’s Waterfront Hotel

  4. At the edge of the battlefield at Vicksburg

  5. The battlefield

Act II

  1. The field after the battle

  2. Judd and Rebekah’s farmhouse in Missouri

  3. Blaine’s Waterfront Hotel

  4. A wharf in Kansas City, Missouri, one year

The development of Home and the River has been made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.


Also with the support of the Rogers and Hammerstein Foundation, Heathcote Art Foundation, Edith Meiser Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable trust, and the Judith Randal Foundation.