The Story
Performed in a Concert production at The York Theatre
The People vs. Mona is a love story, murder mystery, courtroom shenanigans, fate-of-a-small-town-hanging-on-the-verdict musical.For professional companies: seven actor/singers play all the roles in a multicultural cast, accompanied by three onstage musicians. For high schools, colleges, and community theatre: the cast may be expanded by having one actor in each witness role, and a chorus of townspeople in the larger numbers.The music combines folk, blues, gospel, jazz, rock, musical comedy, school anthem, marching band and bossa nova with a theatrical sensibility.Mona Mae Katt, a third-generation Latina-American, owns the Frog Pad, the long-time musical heart of Tippo, GA, a town in need of a plan to revive itself. She is accused of killing C.C. Katt, recording studio operator and her husband of ten hours, by hitting him over the head with her Stratocaster guitar. She is defended by Jim Summerford, a Southern gentleman who's never won a case against prosecutor and Mayoral candidate Mavis Frye--his fiancé. As Jim tries to prove Mona's innocence, he becomes attracted to her, and Mavis ups the stakes: she wants to convict Mona, marry Jim, take office, tear down the Frog Pad, and put up a Casino--bringing in bucks, but taking away Tippo's artistic and social traditions in the process. And if Mona is found guilty, the odds are Mavis will get her way.
Track Listing
- Tippo
- Keep the Frog Pad Alive
- Keep Keep / Hear Ye / Who Wears the Robe? / Glad Glad Glad
- Euple R. Pugh
- Do You?
- The Big Meow
- Officer Bell's Turn
- Work With Me
- Lockdown Blues
- Does the Prosecution Rest?
- Riverboat Casino Gambling
- Riverboat Casino Gambling (Reprise)
- Euple R. Pugh (Reprise)
- Legendary Litigator
- Blind Willy
- Marching Thru Tippo
- You Done Forgot Your Bible
- Partner
- A Real Defense
- Spooky Memories
- The Confession
- Come On Down to Tippo
- Exit Music
Additional Details
Label: JAY Records
Genre: Musical/Broadway
Run Time: 57 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 05/12/09
UPC: 605288140822
Description
Performed in a Concert production at The York Theatre
The People vs. Mona is a love story, murder mystery, courtroom shenanigans, fate-of-a-small-town-hanging-on-the-verdict musical.For professional companies: seven actor/singers play all the roles in a multicultural cast, accompanied by three onstage musicians. For high schools, colleges, and community theatre: the cast may be expanded by having one actor in each witness role, and a chorus of townspeople in the larger numbers.The music combines folk, blues, gospel, jazz, rock, musical comedy, school anthem, marching band and bossa nova with a theatrical sensibility.Mona Mae Katt, a third-generation Latina-American, owns the Frog Pad, the long-time musical heart of Tippo, GA, a town in need of a plan to revive itself. She is accused of killing C.C. Katt, recording studio operator and her husband of ten hours, by hitting him over the head with her Stratocaster guitar. She is defended by Jim Summerford, a Southern gentleman who's never won a case against prosecutor and Mayoral candidate Mavis Frye--his fiancé. As Jim tries to prove Mona's innocence, he becomes attracted to her, and Mavis ups the stakes: she wants to convict Mona, marry Jim, take office, tear down the Frog Pad, and put up a Casino--bringing in bucks, but taking away Tippo's artistic and social traditions in the process. And if Mona is found guilty, the odds are Mavis will get her way.
Track Listing
- Tippo
- Keep the Frog Pad Alive
- Keep Keep / Hear Ye / Who Wears the Robe? / Glad Glad Glad
- Euple R. Pugh
- Do You?
- The Big Meow
- Officer Bell's Turn
- Work With Me
- Lockdown Blues
- Does the Prosecution Rest?
- Riverboat Casino Gambling
- Riverboat Casino Gambling (Reprise)
- Euple R. Pugh (Reprise)
- Legendary Litigator
- Blind Willy
- Marching Thru Tippo
- You Done Forgot Your Bible
- Partner
- A Real Defense
- Spooky Memories
- The Confession
- Come On Down to Tippo
- Exit Music
Additional Details
Label: JAY Records
Genre: Musical/Broadway
Run Time: 57 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 05/12/09
UPC: 605288140822
