Stones
Book by John Reeger
Music and Lyrics by Julie Shannon

Cast Requirememts: 6M, 4W, 1 Child

Stones, a two-act musical, tells the joyous, powerful and poig­nant story of Virginia Jones and Hannah Walker, two African American neighbors who are raising their sons alone in the vibrant Bronzeville neighbor­hood of Chicago, 1920. Vir­ginia’s dreams and plans for herself and her nine-year-old son are thrown topsy-turvy by the unexpected reappearance of Frank Malone, a returning World War I veteran and the love of her life nearly a dec­ade ago in New Orleans. Malone unwittingly brings closer to the two families’ lives the dan­gers of the street—dangers heightened by the linger­ing hatred of the bloody Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Strug­gling with questions of love and responsibility and the physi­cal dangers surrounding them, Virginia and Hannah come to terms with their own de­mons and how they see their children and them­selves. Faith, friendship and the healing power of laughter sustain them through it all.