Pioneer Theatre Company

Paint Your Wagon

Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner • Music by Frederick Loewe • Revised book by David Rambo • Orchestrations by Steve Orich • In association with Christopher Allen, D. Constantine Conte, and Larry Spellman.

September 28 to October 13, 2007

7:30 p.m. Monday - Thursday evenings

8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings

2:00 p.m. Saturday Matinees

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The exuberant musical from the authors of Camelot and My Fair Lady about the California Gold Rush gets a new look in this revised version, in its pre-Broadway tryout. The fabulous songs from the original are all here—“They Call the Wind Maria,” “I Talk to The Trees,” and “Paint Your Wagon” — in a new book and with orchestrations that have been five years in the making.

It's 1852, and Ben Rumson is looking to strike it rich in the gold fields of California. He has raised his daughter Jennifer in the gold camps, and she has become a beautiful, if somewhat tomboy-ish, young woman. She's also the only woman for miles around, and some of the miners have become skittish around her. One day she meets and falls in love with Julio, a handsome young Mexican miner. When a lecherous miner with designs on Jennifer discovers that she loves Julio, he frames Julio as a gold thief, forcing them to run off together. Meanwhile, Ben strikes it rich, and an enterprising miner imports some beautiful “fandango” girls to keep the miners entertained. Ben finds himself falling in love with the lead fandango girl. The story plays out against some of the most striking and memorable show tunes in Broadway history - “I Talk to the Trees,” “They Call the Wind Maria,” and “Paint Your Wagon,” among others - and the arrival of the fandango girls results in several big song-and-dance numbers.

Major support for this production is provided by:


	The Wanda & Carvel Mattsson Memorial Endowment

Banner picture is PTC's 2007 production of Lost In Yonkers.