Alice Murphy

Grace Smithey & Sydney Weers

Billy Cane

Ross Muhlbauer

Daddy Cane

Ben Perschall

Margo Crawford

Trinity Reichart & Madi Nelson

Jimmy Ray Dobbs

Benjamin Dirksen

Max

Noah Lindell

Florence

Addi Thomas

Edna

Elli Mandernach & Faith Sardou

Daryl

Elijah McDonald

Lucy

Livy Stevenson

Mama Murphy

Sydney Anderson & Angel Lindell

Daddy Murphy

Jack VandeKrol

Mayor Josiah Dobbs

Seth Knight

Stanford

Jacob Blattel

Dr. Norquist

Mason Stokes

Government Clerk

Natalie Jepsen

Well-Dressed Woman

Becca Beyer

Townspeople

Addi Thomas

Alex Drent

Aly Cromley

Angel Lindell

Ava Austin

Ava Richardson

Becca Beyer

Ben Perschall

Benjamin Dirksen

Carter Westra

Cora Reed

Elijah McDonald

Elli Mandernach

Emilee Mapes

Emily Barr

Faith Sardou

Grace Smithey

Grace Vandekrol

Grace Wolff

Hailey Volz

Hannah Drent

Harlee Rose

Isaac Hill

Izzy Lowe

Jack Vandekrol

Jacob Blattel

Kaylie Rozenboom

Livy Stevenson

Maddie Bond

Madi Nelson

Mason Stokes

Maya Monk

Megan Theulen

Meredith Tiedens

Mia Schumann

Natalie Jepsen

Rebecca Greene

Rianna Hasselblad

Ross Muhlbauer

Seth Knight

Sophie Hoffmeier

Sophie Vernon

Sydney Anderson

Sydney Weers

Tait Heppler

Trinity Reichart

***The musical jumps in time between 1923-4 and 1945-6 in North

Carolina.

ACT ONE

SCENE 1

Alice, Billy, Company

If You Knew My Story

SCENE 2

Billy, Daddy Cane, Margo

She’s Gone

SCENE 3

Max, Margo, Billy, Florence, Ensemble Bright Star

SCENE 4

Billy, Daryl, Lucy, Alice, Ensemble

Way Back In The Day

SCENE 5

Alice, Jimmy Ray, Ensemble

Whoa, Mama

SCENE 6

Daddy Murphy, Mama Murphy, Alice, Ensemble

Firmer Hand / Do Right

SCENE 7

Mayor, Jimmy Ray, Stanford

A Man’s Gotta Do

SCENE 8

Daryl, Lucy, Billy, Alice, Ensemble

Bright Star Underscore

SCENE 9

Margo, Edna, Florence, Billy

Asheville

#9 Picnic Dance

SCENE 10

Stanford, Ensemble, Jimmy Ray, Alice, Mama & Daddy Murphy

What Could Be Better

SCENE 11

Dr. Norquist, Alice

SCENE 12

Mayor, Jimmy Ray

I Can’t Wait pt. I

SCENE 13

Alice, Daddy Murphy, Stanford, Dr. Norquist, Mayor, Jimmy

Ray, Ensemble

I Can’t Wait pt. II

SCENE 14

Billy, Daryl, Lucy, Alice, Ensemble

SCENE 15

Mama & Daddy Murphy, Mayor, Alice, Stanford, Ensemble

Please, Don’t Take Him

SCENE 16

Mayor, Ensemble

A Man’s Gotta Do (Reprise)

INTERMISSION (10 MINUTES)

ACT 2

SCENE 0

Mama Murphy, Alice, Women, Daddy Cane,Margo, Ensemble

Sun’s Gonna Shine

SCENE 1

Jimmy Ray, Mayor

Heartbreaker

SCENE 3

Alice, Billy, Daryl

SCENE 4

Alice, Clerk

SCENE 5

Alice, Jimmy Ray, Well-Dressed Woman

#18 I Had A Vision

SCENE 6

Margo, Max, Billy, Ensemble

Always Will

SCENE 7

Alice, Daddy Murphy, Mama Murphy

Sun’s Gonna Shine (Reprise)

SCENE 8

Alice, Billy, Daddy Cane, Spirits, Ensemble

So Familiar / At Long Last

SCENE 9

Daryl, Lucy, Jimmy Ray, Alice, Billy, Margo, Company

Finale

In Order of Appearance

Alice Murphy – plays both 16-17 and 36-37. Alice at age 36-

37 is an editor of a southern literary magazine; intelligent, attractive, professional – but with an air of melancholy.

Young Alice at age 16-17 is rebellious, high-spirited, adventurous - looking to break out of small-town life and experience the world. She must be very strong singer and comfortable in folk and bluegrass styles.

Billy Cane - a young soldier returning home from WWII; an aspiring young writer; fresh, open, optimistic, charming, and a little naïve.

Daddy Cane - Billy’s father. A widower. Spry, good looking. Kind hearted, if a bit lonely.

Margo Crawford - a small-town bookstore owner; a childhood friend of Billy's who now harbors romantic feelings towards him; a natural beauty with a keen intellect

Max – a customer at Margo’s bookstore, at first, he has a crush on Margo, but later becomes Edna’s beau.

Florence - an employee at Margo’s bookstore and a childhood friend of both Billy and Margo.

Edna – an employee at Margo’s bookstore.

Daryl Ames - An assistant at a literary magazine. Funny, with a dry and officious sense of humor. Insecure, and perhaps a bit socially awkward, but endearing and innately likeable.

Lucy Grant - A junior editor at a literary magazine. An ambitious, professional young "modern" career woman of the 1940s. Strong, forthright and provocative with a sharp sense of humor.

Mama Murphy - Alice’s mother. A caretaker to her family and her rural community. A warm, loving, sensible woman. Hardworking, with great inner strength and compassion.

Daddy Murphy - Alice's father; an authoritative and a stern disciplinarian; devoutly religious, hard-working, a poor but proud farmer.

Mayor Josiah Dobbs - the Mayor of Zebulon; a political and financial powerbroker - distinguished, an imposing and controlling presence; has a genuine interest in protecting his son's future and his family name, but in doing so, is ultimately pushed to a point of extreme and irrevocable cruelty.

Jimmy Ray Dobbs - plays both age 18-20 and 38-40. Jimmy Ray in his early 20s in flashbacks is Mayor Dobbs' son and young Alice's beau; handsome, boyishly charming, well-built and intelligent; from a family of wealth and power and is being groomed by his father for a similar future in the family business; an independent thinker who is not afraid to stand up to his father for what he believes in; he has a sense of personal responsibility and morality as well as a deep reserve of passion and emotion. The same actor will also play an adult Jimmy Ray at age 38-40.

Stanford – Loyal assistant to Mayor Josiah Dobbs.

Dr. Norquist – The local family doctor in Zebulon.

Government Clerk – A clerk at the Office of Records in Raleigh.

Well-Dressed Woman – A woman (38-40) living in Raleigh. Sister of Jimmy Ray.

Aaron Anderson

Becca Perschall

Braden Blevins

Keeli Maas

Izzy Lowe

Maddie Bond

Natalie Jepsen

Tait Heppler

Ross Muhlbauer

Seth Knight

Emilee Mapes

Emily Barr

Faith Sardou

Grace Smithey

Collin Spratt

Aden Burdine

Chistian Bequeaith

Spencer Markley

Ray Denger

Landon Stokes

Stage Manager

Sydney Mast

Sound

Aden Burdine

Landon Stokes

Lighting

Natalie Kalvik

Set Design

Dave Barr

Tyler Harper

Director

Tyler Harper