Beautiful Dreamers

Book by Martin Giles
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Foster
Arrangements and Additional Music by Douglas Levine

Moses Walker, his heart broken by a love betrayed, sets off on a journey to the West from New York in search of Love, self, freedom and home. He finds companions along the way--a Virginia widow and a runaway slave--and together they cross mighty rivers, the Great Plains, the Rockies and Sierras, and come to the shining Pacific. They meet Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Sam Clemens, soldiers and Indians, stolid homesteaders, bitter 49ers and burlesque acts. They experience love and loss, hilarity, passion, and death--the making of a Nation in a landscape of dreams.

Beautiful Dreamers was commissioned and given its world premiere by Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater and Opera Theater of Pittsburgh in 2010.

For inquiries or to request demo CD, please email Doug.

Sample songs from world premiere production of Beautiful Dreamers:

Musicians: Douglas Levine (Keyboard and Conductor), Jonathan Moser (Violin), John Marcinizyn (Guitar and Banjo), Paul Thompson (Double Bass)

“Helping Foster sound so much better than many of today's musical-theater composers are music director Douglas Levine's arrangements.”

–Pittsburgh City Paper

“All benefit from feeling arrangements by music director Douglas Levine and skilled period-sounding accompaniment by a combo of four.”

–Pittsburgh Post Gazette