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Book By Patricia Miller and Jim Wann

Music and Lyrics By Jim Wann  

starring
Marcie Henderson • Marc Kudisch Christiane Noll • Ron Raines • Omri Schein Natalie Toro • Lillias White

Orchestrations By Ritt Henn  

 

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.

1. Tippo
   Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
2. Keep The Frog Pad Alive
   Natalie Toro, Company of Mona
3. Keep Keep / Hear Ye / Who Wears The Robe? / Glad Glad Glad
   
4. Euple R. Pugh
   Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
5. Do You?
   Dan Weiss, Marci Henderson, Christiane Noll
6. The Big Meow
   Marcie Henderson, Ron Raines, Omri Schein
7. Officer Bell's Turn
   Ron Raines, Christiane Noll, Lillias White, Marc Kudisch
8. Work With Me
   Marc Kudisch, Natalie Toro, The McGnatts
9. Lockdown Blues
   Natalie Toro, Marc Kudisch, The McGnatts
10. Does The Prosecution Rest?
    Christiane Noll, Lillias White, Marc Kudisch
11. Riverboat Casino Gambling
    Christiane Noll, Company of Mona, Marc Kudisch
12. Riverboat Casino Gambling (Reprise)
    Christiane Noll, Natalie Toro, Marc Kudisch
13. Euple R. Pugh (Reprise)
    Company of Mona
14. Legendary Litigator
    Omri Schein, Lillias White, Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
15. Blind Willy
    Marcie Henderson, Lillias White, Christiane Noll, Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
16. Marching Thru Tippo
    Natalie Toro, Marc Kudisch, Omri Schein, Company of Mona
17. You Done Forgot Your Bible
    Lillias White, Christiane Noll, Company of Mona
18. Partner
    Natalie Toro, Marc Kudisch
19. A Real Defense
    Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
20. Spooky Memories
    Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
21. The Confession
    Ron Raines, Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
22. Come On Down To Tippo
    Marc Kudisch, Company of Mona
23. Exit Music
    The McGnatts