

Welcome) The WOODLAWNS, appear, freshly arrived from Boston. The stage comes alive with a barn raising. There is also a 1 hour cut, for 8 actors to serve the needs of Theatre for Young Audiences. With doubling and tripling of roles the possibilities are endless.

With full casting there are roles for 8 adult men, 7 adult women and 18 children of various ages. Her father, however, encourages her antics, that she might thrive amidst the new, tougher ways of the west.Ĭaddie Woodlawn a Musical Drama is written to be performed by any size theatre group. Caddie (the iconic, high-spirited Wisconsin pioneer girl beloved by generations of readers) leads her willing siblings in a series of thrilling adventures, not always with the approval of her traditional Bostonian mother. She had collected the stories that her grandmother had often recounted of her adventures as a pioneer child settling the wilderness of Wisconsin in the mid 1800’Ĭarol Ryrie Brink's Newberry award-winning novel Caddie Woodlawn has been brought to exuberant life as a musical. In 1935 Carol Ryrie Brink wrote the Newbery-award winning novel, CADDIE WOODLAWN, based on the childhood of her grandmother, Caroline Woodhouse.
