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Rocket City, Alabam'

Rocket City, Alabam', a play with songs, captures a lost, true-life episode in the history of the American South, presenting a hushed-up story, colorful Southern characters, and several famous songs of the region— blues, spirituals and gospel.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: 1950s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Rocket City, Alabam', a play with songs, captures a lost, true-life episode in the history of the American South, presenting a hushed-up story, colorful Southern characters, and several famous songs of the region— blues, spirituals and gospel. 

At the dawn of the Cold War, the early 1950's, a young, brash, Army major, Hamilton Pike, brings famed German rocket scientist and former Hitler employee Wernher Von Braun to Huntsville, Alabama, a cotton town selected to become America's "Rocket City." But Huntsville has a Jewish community over a century old. Sparks fly and tempers explode when Amy Lubin, the Jewish fiancee of local war hero Jed Kessler learns of Von Braun's Nazi past. 

Rocket City, Alabam' presents the moral dilemmas of idealism vs. practicality, of revenge vs. forgiveness with sensitivity and humor, as well as with some classic songs, including "Down By the Riverside," "Alabama Bound," "This Little Light of Mine" and many more. 
REVIEWS:

"Through Rocket City we are provoked into assessing our own beliefs and any ambiguities in our moral principles -- the play also confronts its audiences with challenges to issues of race relations, gender politics, religious tolerance, military authority and the divide between North and South that remain with us today."

 Michael P. Howley, Montgomery Advertiser

Premiere Production: Rocket City, Alabam' was developed at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in its Southern Writers Project.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting, Minority casting

AMY LUBIN - young New York woman, early 20's
MAJOR HAMILTON PIKE, JR. - American blue-blood, Princeton-educated Army officer. Mid-20's to early 30's.
JED KESSLER - Amy's Alabama-born fiancé, 20's
WERNHER VON BRAUN - the German rocket genius.

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Rocket City, Alabam', a play with songs, captures a lost, true-life episode in the history of the American South, presenting a hushed-up story, colorful Southern characters, and several famous songs of the region— blues, spirituals and gospel. At the dawn of the Cold War, the early 1950's, a young, brash, Army major, Hamilton Pike, brings famed German rocket scientist and former Hitler employee Wernher Von Braun to Huntsville, Alabama, a cotton town selected to become America's 'Rocket City.' But Huntsville has a Jewish community over a century old. Sparks fly and tempers explode when Amy Lubin, the Jewish fiancee of local war hero Jed Kessler learns of Von Braun's Nazi past. Rocket City, Alabam' presents the moral dilemmas of idealism vs. practicality, of revenge vs. forgiveness with sensitivity and humor, as well as with some classic songs, including 'Down By the Riverside,' 'Alabama Bound,' 'This Little Light of Mine' and many more. Rocket City, Alabam' was developed at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in its Southern Writers Project.

$24.95

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