Frederick Freyer | concert style | medium 19

(2 acts)

Harvey Cheyne, a spoiled 12-year-old boy who falls off his father's ocean liner in the North Atlantic in 1928. Rescued by Manuel, a Portuguese fisherman, Harvey is brought aboard a New England fishing schooner and put to work. Thrust into a pre-modern world of ropes, sails and fishing lines, Harvey rebels, and he is soon branded a "Jonah" and blamed for the ship's bad luck. But with Manuel's help and friendship, Harvey leaves his boyhood behind, wins over the crew, and learns the value of hard work, spirit and song. The musical is based on the Rudyard Kipling novel and the classic Academy Award-winning film.

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Out On The Sea
Little Fish
I'm Harvey Ellesworth Cheyne
Ten Seconds/Not So Bad
Heed The Signs/Once There Was A Day
I Make Up This Song
A Hundred Years Ago
That's Where I'm Bound
Jonah
You Never Saw
Song Of The Sea
Grand Banks Sequence
Regular Fellas
I'm Home
I Make Up This Song (reprise)
Song Of The Sea (reprise)

MANUEL (tenor/baritone): a Portuguese fisherman
HARVEY CHEYNE (boy alto): a 12-year-old boy
CAPTAIN TROOP (baritone): captain of the "We're Here".
DAN (1st tenor): the captain's son, 16 years old.
DOC (bass): cook on the "We're Here".
MR. CHEYNE (non-singing): wealthy industrialist, Harvey's father.
ELIOT (non-singing): Mr. Cheyne's secretary SHIP'S ATTENDANT (non-singing)
CREW OF THE "WE'RE HERE":
LONG JACK: (baritone/bass) morose, religious, menacing.
EVANS: (second tenor) unassuming, insecure
HEMANS: (second tenor) dark, sensitive.
STEPHENS: (bass) intelligent, assertive.
SIMON: (baritone) jocular, the "class clown".
TOM PLATT: (first tenor) educated, rational.
OLLIE (bass): elderly, wise.
PETERS (second tenor): shifty, ill-mannered.
HARRIS (first tenor): portly, dour.
MURPHY (baritone): short-tempered, brutish.
WALTERS (bass): burly, loyal

N.B.:The ages of the crew may range from 20's to 60's. Ollie is the oldest member of the crew. MR. CHEYNE, ELIOT, and SHIP'S ATTENDANT double as crew members.

Director's Script
Cast Scripts
Vocal Books
Piano-Vocal Score

(12 musicians)
Conductor/Keyboard 1 (Piano)
Keyboard 2 (Synthesizer, Accordion)
Reed 1 (Clarinet, Flute)
Reed 2 (Oboe, English Horn)
Reed 3 (Bassoon)
Trumpet
French Horn
Violin
Viola
Cello
Bass
Percussion

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