Hopkinsville resident Ron Creager is the co-creator of a musical, “Tangled Webbs,” that was one of six works selected for the Florida Festival of New Musicals playing June 24 through 27 at the Winter Park Playhouse in Orlando.
Creager wrote the music for “Tangled Webbs,” and his co-creator, Gary Brumburgh, of Sherman Oaks, California, wrote the lyrics. Their musical is a spoof on daytime soap opera.
“We’re proud to have been chosen from a very large group of submissions,” Creager wrote in a Facebook post. “Here’s hoping that this leads to other productions!”
The Florida Festival of New Musicals showcases new, never-produced works.
“The first act or one-hour version of each selected musical will be fully read and sung concert-style, without staging, by varying casts of professional actors and musicians,” the organizers described.
They add that the festival provides a “unique insight into how a new musical comes to life.”
The Winter Park Playhouse says, “‘Tangled Webbs’ is a zany, light-hearted musical spoof of daytime soap operas set during TV’s early heyday. The story takes place in the conservative, fictional town of Willowcrest during the Camelot summer of 1963. The saga centers around the virtuous, much-admired Webb family — their friends, their foes, their fate.”
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
