Lewis and Clark
 March 30, 2004
$5

9:00 AM

11:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lewis and Clark

The Narrator sets the stage as his imagination forms pictures in his mind. He is taken you back to the excitement and adventure of the Expedition! He pictures Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery struggling against ice, snow, cold, danger and near starvation in the Bitterroot Mountains! They have lost several horses and supplies and the Shoshoni Indians are nowhere in sight.

The Narrator sings of the struggle and asks where did it start, How did it happen? The next scene takes us to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Martha Jefferson, the president's daughter announces that the Canadian explorer, MacKenzie's report has arrived. Lewis enters and they both pour over the MacKenzie report and start to plan their own expedition.  Lewis goes to Philadelphia where he studies with the finest minds.

Lewis buys his supplies and builds his keelboat.  Lewis writes his famous letter to Clark inviting him to join the Expedition.  During the musical number, the keel boat with its giant mast and square sale is created and the American Flag is raised as Lewis and Clark set off up the Missouri River.

This musical production of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is a story of two great explorers and the frontiersmen who joined them in one of the greatest expeditions in history! The trials, triumphs and the peoples who helped them in their discovery are all in this electrifying production. The encounter with the Teton Sioux, the wintering with the Mandans, Sacagawea's intervention with the Shoshoni; crossing the terrible Bitterroot Mountains and the joy of reaching the Pacific Ocean.

A great American Odyssey of exploration and human triumph, the musical is full of memorable characters: Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson, the fiddle-playing Cruzat, French-Indian hunter, guide, Drouilliard, Old Dorion, Frontiersmen: Sergeants Gass, and Ordway, Clark's Black Slave, York, the Shoshone Indian girl, Sacagawea, Indian Chiefs: Black Buffalo (Teton Sioux), Big White (Mandan), Cameahwait (Shoshone), Twisted Hair (Nez Perce) and others.