Floyd Collins
Playwrights Horizons
Previews Began: -
Opening Night: February 9, 1996
Closing Night: March 24, 1996
Music: Adam Guettel
Lyrics: Adam Guettel
Tina Landau
Book: Tina Landau
In 1925, while chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning a Kentucky cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself became the attraction when he got trapped 200 feet underground. Alone but for sporadic contact with the outside world, Floyd fought for his sanity and ultimately his life as the rescue effort above exploded into the first genuine media circus. Reporters and gawkers from across the country descended on the property, fueling the hysteria and manipulating the nation into holding its collective breath.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT ONE
Ballad of Floyd Collins…………………………..Company
The Call………………………………………………..Floyd
It Moves……………………………………………….Floyd
Time to Go…………………………………………….Floyd
Lucky……………………………………..Nellie, Miss Jane
‘Tween a Rock An’ a Hard Place…………..Family, Locals
Daybreak……………………………………..Homer, Floyd
Ballad of Floyd Collins (Reprise I)…………………Jewell
I Landed on Him……………………………..Skeets Miller
And She’d Have Blue Eyes……………………………Floyd
Heart an’ Hand…………………………….Miss Jane, Lee
Riddle Song………………………………….Homer, Floyd
ACT TWO
Is That Remarkable?………………..Reporters, Company
Carnival……………………………………Floyd, Company
Through the Mountain……………………………..Nellie
Git Comfortable…………………………………….Homer
Ballad of Floyd Collins (Reprise II)………………..Jewell
The Dream………………Floyd, Nellie, Homer, Company
How Glory Goes……………………………………….Floyd
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Stephen Lee Anderson Bee Doyle
Matthew Bennett Dr. Hazlett
Reporter
James Bohanek Reporter
Con Man
Don Chastain Lee Collins
Jason Danieley Homer Collins
Christopher Innvar Floyd Collins
Brian d’Arcy James Clif Roney
Reporter
Jesse Lenat Jewell Estes
Theresa McCarthy Nellie Collins
Martin Moran Skeets Miller
Cass Morgan Miss Jane
Michael Mulheren H.T. Carmichael
Rudy Roberson Ed Bishop