Splendora

Splendora

Off Broadway Collection

The favorite pastime in Splendora, a small East Texas town, is gossip. People were still talking about outcast Timothy John Coldridge—who ran away fifteen years ago and was never heard from again—until Miss Jessica Gatewood came to town. The exotic and beautiful Miss Jessie, a lady of Victorian bearing and lofty literary ideals, was hired to run the county bookmobile. As if she wasn’t enough to talk about on her own, she moved into the very house in which Timothy John once lived with his grandmother. Miss Jessie’s refined ways and charismatic civic pride captivates the entire town, particularly Brother Leggett, but leaves Sue Ella Lightfoot slightly suspicious. When Miss Jessie and Leggett begin working together on the courthouse restoration project, inspiring others to make Splendora a better place to live, Sue Ella begins to figure out Jessie’s secret. Paying a visit to the town’s newest, most popular citizen, Sue Ella tells her that she knows Miss Jessica Gatewood is really Timothy John Coldridge, but Sue Ella vows she’ll keep the secret. Miss Jessie, thankful, confides that she’s fallen in love with Leggett and is assured that Sue Ella understands. Feeling confident, the Timothy John side of Miss Jessie becomes more forceful, almost careless. At a fund raising event, Jessie is crowned Miss Crepe Myrtle, and stunned, is asked to name her Cavalier—Leggett—who proposes to her on the spot. Jessie runs off and the battle of wills explodes in Jessie/Timothy John’s mind—and Timothy John wins. When Leggett finds Timothy John and not Jessie, he realizes the truth which sends him into a religious fit forcing Timothy John to run him off. Agonized and feeling the way he did fifteen years ago, Timothy John vows to destroy the painful memories and sets his house on fire. With the house up in flames, Sue Ella rushes over to find Timothy John unharmed, as does Leggett, fearing he’s caused Timothy John’s death. The two realize they are meant to be together, but, as Sue Ella wisely points out, not in Splendora, so she helps the two escape and blames Miss Jessie’s disappearance on the tragic fire.

Creators

Peter Webb

Book By Peter Webb won the Richard Rodgers Production Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his Off-Broadway musical Splendora and was nominated for outstanding script by the Writers Guild of...

Stephen Hoffman

Music By Stephen Hoffman is the composer of Splendora, which was first presented by the Bay Street Theatre and subsequently at the American Place Theatre in New York City and is available for performance through...

Mark Campbell

Lyrics By Mark Campbell is a successful book writer/lyricist who has collaborated on several full-length musicals, including VOLPONE (music by John Musto), THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUISA MAE (music by Stephen Hoffman, book by...

"SPLENDORA is a brave new musical…a most remarkable show."

The New York Times

"SPLENDORA boasts…the only thing I’ve heard in a new musical this season that could be called music…"

Village Voice

Orchestration

3 Musicians

PIANO/VOCAL,
REED (A Clarinet, Bb Clarinet, Flute, Tenor Sax),
CELLO

Production Materials

The required production package will include the materials listed below. These materials will be shipped upon receipt of payment if your license request is approved.

8 Cast Script/Vocal Books

A combination of the show’s full script and the full vocal book. All dialogue within each song is printed in the score to prevent flipping back and forth during rehearsals. All books are spiral-bound and double-sided.

2 Director’s Scripts

A single-sided, spiral-bound script designed with plenty of space for the director to take notes and add blocking during the rehearsal process.

1 Stage Manager’s Script

A single-sided, three-hole punched script that can be inserted into your three-ring binder.

2 Piano/Vocal Scores

This piano score includes all vocal parts. It can be used during the rehearsal process and during performance.

Orchestration Set

Cello, Reed

Production Resources

Digital Orchestration PDFs

Prefer playing or rehearsing from your tablet? All of our orchestration scores (including PC and PV) are available in digital copies.

Digital PC or PV $50
Full Digital Orchestration Set $150

Broadway Plus

A workshop experience in which a Broadway artist speaks and works with students in an educational setting through our partnership with Broadway Plus.

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Credits

Based on the 1978 novel by Edward Swift

A version of this show artwork is available to purchase with your license!