{"id":1631,"date":"2014-10-01T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T00:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2014-10-11T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T19:05:54","slug":"calamity-jane-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"CALAMITY JANE RIDES AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Catherine<\/a>Calamity Jane rides again!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw Calamity Jane<\/em> on Sunday and I can\u2019t stop thinking about it.\u00a0 It was as perfect a show as I\u2019ve ever seen on our stage.\u00a0 What a cast!\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t add more superlatives without heaping superlatives on superlatives.\u00a0 It was absolutely the most enjoyable theatre experience I\u2019ve had in years.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 -B. J. Scott, Founder, Camino Real Playhouse<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Unexpected blessings abound! Isn\u2019t it amazing how sometimes the blessings come unasked and unexpected? A phone call came asking if a theater in Orange County, CA could produce my play, Calamity Jane the Musical<\/em><\/strong>, which is currently playing at the Camino Real in San Juan Capistrano, CA. Just returned from the opening weekend and they did a great job. By sheer chance, Calamity Jane the Play<\/em><\/strong> is being revived at the Plaza Theater in Carpenteria, CA (near Santa Barbara) Oct 17-26.<\/p>\n

Three decades ago I wrote the original play \u2013 not the Doris Day version. This is the real story of Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody. The theme is the myth and reality of the Wild West.<\/p>\n

Two decades ago, I was approached by Allan Jay Friedman to work with him and Jeff Silbar “Wind Beneath My Wings”) along with lyricists Rand Bishop and Amanda McBroom (“The Rose”) to adapt my play into a musical. It was a wonderful experience and my first experience writing book for a musical.<\/p>\n

Now flash forward twenty years and the musical is having its third production and the original play its fifth production.<\/p>\n

This weekend sitting in the audience, I felt as though I was seeing the show for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Later I felt grateful that this old play still works in the 21st<\/sup> century. The audience laughed and cried in all the right places and loved the show. Nice when an old play returns & still delights.<\/p>\n

Our plays, books, and films are our children. Born in an act of love and yet once they are birthed, you never know how they will turn out years later. It is gratifying to see that they can still live and thrill an audience. Writing indeed has its rewards!<\/p>\n

I’m heading down today to Orange County to see the last performance. Seeing something you wrote decades ago incites reflection as to who you are today compared with who you were when you first wrote this play. Not the same person. Couldn’t write this today yet glad it came through when it did. In fact, I look back at all my plays,\u00a0 films &\u00a0 books & feel exactly the same about each and everyone of them.\u00a0 There is no way I could write any of these today. Each project was an expression of who the writer was at that time.<\/p>\n

Each day whoever we are dissolves and someone else takes over. Life is now, ever changing, ever new.<\/p>\n

And I wouldn’t have it any other way!<\/p>\n

Visit www.wayofstory.com<\/a> to see flyers for both shows. Better yet, go see them! Yippee!<\/p>\n

\"Catherine<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve ever been a parent<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever had a parent<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 If you’ve ever<\/strong> loved and lost<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 You\u2019ll love this show.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s this week’s review of the musical: Click on:
\nhttp:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/calamity-636919-wild-bill.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept 26\u2014Oct 12 San Juan Capistrano, CA: Calamity Jane the Musical,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 www.CaminoRealPlayhouse.org\/calamityjane.html#<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct 17- 26 Carpenteria, CA: Calamity Jane the Play<\/em><\/strong>, www.PlazaTheaterCarpenteria.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Calamity Jane rides again! \u201cI saw Calamity Jane on Sunday and I can\u2019t stop thinking about it.\u00a0 It was as perfect a show as I\u2019ve ever seen on our stage.\u00a0 What a cast!\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t add more superlatives without heaping superlatives on superlatives.\u00a0 It was absolutely the most enjoyable theatre experience I\u2019ve had in years.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}