Overview
This new musical puts a current spin on the classic Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. On Halloween night, three modern-day children find themselves traveling back in time to 18th century New Amsterdam, arriving right in the middle of Sleepy Hollow with all its odd characters, traditions, ghosts and goblins. They’ll need all their ingenuity to get back home to the present! The show runs as a one-act, but can easily accommodate an intermission for a two-act presentation.
Casting & Production
Casting
CAST
MODERN-DAY CHILDREN:
AMY – Older – 12 or 13ish – nice and super-smart
CHARLIE – Older – 14 or 15ish – bossy, a know-it-all and pushes around the other two kids
IRVING – Younger – 8 or 9ish – cute kid
SLEEPY HOLLOW CHARACTERS:
TRUDY – Woman of the town – mother of ABBEY, BEN, WASHINGTON
ICHABOD CRANE/OLD ICHABOD – Schoolmaster – tall, awkward, in love with KATIE – frightened of his own shadow
KATIE (KATRINA VAN TASSEL) – Pretty, enamored with ICHABOD, intrigued with BROM BONES – but skeptical that either one is really right for her (KATIE Can also double as DUTCH WIFE 2)
BROM BONES – 18th Century Hunk, self-indulgent, in love with KATIE and himself
DUTCH WIFE 1 – Sort of a “do-wopp” backup chorus of women caricatures of the Dutch Wives – funny
DUTCH WIFE 2 – Sort of a “do-wopp” backup chorus of women caricatures of the Dutch Wives – funny
DUTCH WIFE 3 – Sort of a “do-wopp” backup chorus of women caricatures of the Dutch Wives – funny
RUSTIC LAD 1/MODERN COP – BROM BONES loyal followers who worship him
RUSTIC LAD 2 – BROM BONES loyal followers who worship him
RUSTIC LAD 3 – BROM BONES loyal followers who worship him
KIDS IN SLEEPY HOLLOW:
ABBEY – 18th Century child
BEN – 18th Century child
WASHINGTON – 18th Century child
SOFIE/EMILY – 18th Century child
ASSORTED TOWNSPEOPLE OR CHILDREN – Can be added or not at the discretion of the Director NOTE: THE CAST SIZE MAY BE ADJUSTED UP OR DOWN TO BEST WORK WITHIN YOUR PRODUCTION NEEDS. CHARACTER LINES MAY BE RE-ASSIGNED AND/OR ROLES COMBINED
Orchestral Information
Accompaniment CD
Piano-Vocal Score
Credits
SLEEPY HOLLOW A Musical Tale Book, Music & Lyrics by Janet Yates Vogt & Mark Friedman
A new telling of the Washington Irving classic
Media
- What's Become of Ichabod Crane?
- Trick or Treat Background Music
- What's Become of Ichabod Crane Underscore
- Come on Down to Sleepy Hollow
- Here on this Hillside
- School Transition Music
- Same Right Now As It Was Back Then
- Brom Bones Underscoring
- He's Brom
- He's Brom Reprise
- That's What I Like About Him
- King Ichabod Crane
- Endless Halloween
- Endless Halloween Reprise
- Hallow's Eve Minuet
- The Dance on Hallow's Eve
- Brom's Story
- Ichabod's Story
- Here on this Hillside Reprise 1
- What's Become of Ichabod Crane Reprise
- Here on this Hillside Reprise 2