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 Queen of the Mist
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Book and Lyrics by Lezlie Wade
Music by Wayne Gwillim

Premiered at Smile Theatre, Toronto
March 26 - June 16 2007

About the play:
A musical tale of Annie Edson Taylor who was the first person, and only woman, to go over the falls in 1901 and live.

Musical numbers include:

  1. AT THE RIVER
  2. WONDER
  3. LEARNING TO WALTZ
  4. THE LONG BROWN PATH
  5. MAGIC IS WHAT HAPPENS
  6. LONG BROWN PATH/WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME
  7. INVENTION
  8. WHY NOT
  9. SIDETRACKED
  10. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKING
  11. ON THE BRINK
  12. SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE

Song Excerpts: Vocals by Naomi Emerson (click on the links below to listen)

Track One - Wonder
Track Two - Sidetracked

 

Photo Credits (by selection number): 1. Annie Edson Taylor, studio portrait 2. Annie Edson Taylor, 1901

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lezlie wade

 

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tom mcpherson - musical collaborator

 

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poor lydia is lost

 

the chimes

 

a man of no importance

 

elegies: a song cycle

 

book of days

 

waiting for the parade

 

for the pleasure of seeing her again

 

cowgirls

 

that summer

 

the shaw festival director's project

 

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