https://www.ed-weissman.com/about daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://www.ed-weissman.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-06-25 https://www.ed-weissman.com/edweissmanmecom daily 0.75 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/697ea9c5-57c4-42ce-83ed-fd0b3d3c5e42/SAGA++A+Musical+Triptych+6+11+25+Viking+font+no+new.1.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/f49454e4-d1f0-4bec-a3a0-1a1d1d530a0b/SAGA+a+musical+triptych+draft+from+10+March+2023.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1604414441867-V01VVVNMVPQZMC97IKJD/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1604416363406-008S0PB7XPOYCLF3K2PY/SNL+New+Title+Page+7+20+16+copy.jpg Musicals - She’s No Lady 1720 Anne Bonny arrives on a Caribbean island to marry a rich planter. He’s a sadistic brute. She runs off. She encounters a handsome young man who offers to be her shining knight. She doesn’t need help from a man. Anne encounters Jack and his band of pirates down on their luck, without a ship, on a beach. She offers a plan to capture a ship and the treasure aboard. The mysterious young man, Madison Crosby, is a British Royal Navy captain sent to capture pirates. Anne pretends to be a sea nymph, she bedazzles the crew of a ship. Jack and the pirates capture the ship taking on some new members with the Captain and others walking the plank. Complications ensue, Anne is captured. A fake treasure hunt is stage, Anne is freed. A battle captures Anne and he pirates. A trial is interrupted and. Madison frees them all and they sail off into history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1604416559004-Z4FE1VIN6QEI0QLRU459/VERMONT+new+title+page+7+19+16+copy.jpg Musicals - VERMONT: The Musical Ethan Allen and The Green Mountain Boys invent Vermont. Yes, the British were the enemy. But the real threats came from the colony/state of New York and a New Jersey lawyer nicknamed Jersey Slick. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga, but are captured when they attempt to capture Montreal. Ethan is sent to England as a prisoner and is exhibited to society. His charm wins over some very powerful people. He is released. By the time he returns home, the Republic of Vermont has a constitution banning slavery and a full democracy (for all men.) But Jersey Slick Isaac is in power and is conducting witch hunts against supposed tories. Ethan ends them and the battle of Bennington (held in NY) is a turning point in the Revolution. Ethan is triumphant. The moral of the play “Don’t Jersey Vermont.” https://www.ed-weissman.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-10-03 https://www.ed-weissman.com/home daily 1.0 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1605796010438-XU7SVRVJTNUJ7ABWP87T/anne%2Bbrown%2Bat%2BLa%2BScala%2B1946.jpg Introduction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109273816-S9IFSGAABSQ2QZMGMQJU/Edgar+and+Clyde+4.jpeg Introduction Edgar and Clyde at the theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109295456-5O3OBPBYR9BO9V2QW68V/Anne+Brown+at+92.jpg Introduction Anne Brown at 92 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109312771-0BLRFBZ4AXR5XLBHPDXN/Anne+Brown+and+Thomas+Skjelderup+grave+in+Oslo+copy.jpeg Introduction Anne and Thorlief's tombstone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109330042-0XIG2P9BGXDQB7209FOJ/Edgar+and+Clyde+and+Joe+McCarthy.jpeg Introduction Edgar Clyde and Joe McCarthy and ? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109358086-LNDH9Q9FCF5N57RELWGH/P+%26+B+original+program.jpeg Introduction Porgy and Bess Playbill 1935 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109372702-R85BY61Z9BUT1OVFE3YL/Screenshot+2020-05-21+08.31.57.png Introduction Sondre's Jump over his house - recreated https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109388255-FATW8V3ZMNHQZJLE4A9P/Sondre+statue+in+Morgedal.png Introduction Statue of Sondre Norheim in Telemark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109401567-NWG5KWS2HWYQEBZY6LLV/Edgar+and+Clyde+5.jpeg Introduction Edgar and Clyde all dressed up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607109502538-L2H0GNFBY5SMKUQFD0N9/Anne+brown_190+NYT.jpg Introduction Anne Brown in 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607181321906-TVEV372WR9TZ5TQRVXW5/Isaac+Tichenor+cropped.jpg Introduction Isaac Tichenor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607181623303-L5CLS0A5846ISE9MIQC8/An%252BEthan%252BAllen%252Bstatue.jpg Introduction Ethan Allen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607181846640-DOBI44S3V5KJWI2TQFDD/w420.jpg+%28420%C3%97690%29.jpg Introduction Cover of Anne Brown's autobiography (Sang From A Frozen Branch 1979 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/1607534843443-50Z0MNTHPC0ZO1KO203G/Ethel%2Band%2BEdgar.jpg Introduction J. Edgar Hoover honors his dear friend Ethel Merman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c2e57f1f9ec6518487b00/f1225e0e-ea1a-49bb-89bc-02a62a715c80/Young+Anne+Brown.jpeg Introduction Anne Brown in the 1930s when she was creating the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess