Rocket City, Alabam'

Play with Music / Characters: 6m 3f with doublingRocket City Alabam' a play with songs captures a lost true-life episode in the history of the American South presenting a hushed-up story colorful Southern characters and several famous songs of the region- blues spirituals and gospel. At the dawn of the Cold War the early 1950's a young brash Army major Hamilton Pike brings famed German rocket scientist and former Hitler employee Wernher Von Braun to Huntsville Alabama a cotton town selected to become America's "Rocket City." But Huntsville has a Jewish community over a century old. Sparks fly and tempers explode when Amy Lubin the Jewish fiancee of local war hero Jed Kessler learns of Von Braun's Nazi past. Rocket City Alabam' presents the moral dilemmas of idealism vs. practicality of revenge vs. forgiveness with sensitivity and humor as well as with some classic songs including Down By the Riverside Alabama Bound This Little Light of Mine and many more. Rocket City Alabam' was developed at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in its Southern Writers Project."Through Rocket City we are provoked into assessing our own beliefs and any ambiguities in our moral principles-the play also confronts its audiences with challenges to issues of race relations gender politics religious tolerance military authority and the divide between North and South that remain with us today."- Michael P. Howley Montgomery Advertiser