Experience this new musical as it moves from page to stage! This workshop performance represents an invaluable part of the new play development process, and your presence will help shape the journey of this powerful new theatrical work.
Creek Street is based on the true story of Dolly Arthur, one of the last remaining residents of Ketchikan, Alaska’s infamous Creek Street — a boardwalk community of working women who built their own lives on their own terms in the early 1900s. The show follows journalist Ryan Kincaid, assigned to write Dolly’s obituary, who instead finds himself drawn into the remarkable story of a
woman who refused to let anyone else define her.
With book and lyrics by William Leary and music by Stephen Geddes, Creek Street weaves between two timelines — the vibrant world of Creek Street at its height and a nursing home where an 87-year-old Dolly Arthur proves she hasn’t lost an ounce of her fire. The show features 18 original songs spanning country, ragtime, and classic American musical theater.
“Dolly Arthur was a woman who named herself, built something real out of nothing, and never apologized for who she was,” says Leary. “Her story deserves to be told, and Creek Street is our attempt to tell it faithfully and with the respect it deserves.”