Coming August 27-28, 2022 to Amelia Musical Playhouse, a NEW comedic family revue about Amelia Island’s history written by Robin Pullen!
AMELIA longs to get out of her parents’ basement and be a Tour Guide, but she doesn’t even know who Gregor MacGregor and the Beach Lady are! So when Centre Street’s PIRATE PETE springs to life, they travel through time on a swashbuckling adventure to discover the island’s secret treasure and save her job.
Sponsor: Florida Psychological Associates
Dates and Times:
| August 27, 2022 | 7:30 |
| August 28, 2022 | 2:30 |
CHARACTERS
PIRATE ( Pegleg Pete )…hand-carved animated pirate… BOB O’HARA
AMELIA…tour guide, dressed as an island……. AUDREY AUSTIN
BOSS…a prickly pear, in need of his replacement………..OZZIE MEDINA
KATE BAILEY…long-skirted, gun-toting pianist: COLLEEN PERRY
TIMUCUAN: DEIRDRE A. WALLACE
JEAN RIBAULT, knee-booted Frenchman, 1st to land on the island, 1562: MIKE KING
BEACH LADY, MaVynne Betsch: JESSICA MAINOR THIELE
GREGOR MACGREGOR…1817, self-decorated Scottish soldier: CHAD MILLER
TONY (SHARK) …flip flop wearing retiree: JEFFREY GOLDBERG
LUIS AURY(KING)… self-declared privateer, 1817: MIKE KING
MISSIONARY (TOURIST)…Spanish church and food grower, 1565: JOHN DREW
FLAG – ANN WALSH
RAILROAD (also plays WORKER)…a mover/shaker. Literally. JEFF GRODEN-THOMAS
Music by local artists, including Jill Bosie Dillingham, Bill Ivins, David Reeb
SET in Amelia Island, Florida. The present, and back in time.
Act I Centre Street, the present.
Giant Oak tree, 1900.
Old Town Field. Fort Carlos, 1000 yrs. ago
Pirates Ship, 1817
Act II
Railroad Station, 1845
American Beach, 1970
Centre Street, the present.
