THE GOLDEN SPIKE
4F, 6M (Full Length Musical)
Libretto – Don Nguyen
Music & Lyrics – The Lobbyists
The Golden Spike is an epic love story set against the backdrop of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Molly, questioning where she fits in the world with her half-Chinese, half-Irish background, discovers a long lost journal written by her third great grandfather, Sun Wu. Through the journal, Molly learns of Sun Wu’s life on the railroad, his struggles assimilating and how that all connects to her. The show explores themes of race, identity, the American Dream, who gets to pursue it and who is excluded from it. And all of this is powered by the music of The Lobbyists, a folk rock back based in NYC.
BRICLab Residency 2020
Directed by Maggie Lee
MOLLY GANNON………………………………………………………………….Kim Blank
SUN WU…………………………………………………………………………Tony Aidan Vo
JIAO ZHOU……………………………………………………………………..Laura Dadap
JAMES STROBRIDGE/NEWTON HOWARD…………………….Tommy Crawford
SECOND CELESTIAL: LI CHAU…………………………………………..Sean Devare
ELI GILMORE…………………………………………………………………..Eloïse Eonnet
FELIX GALLOWAY………………………………………………………………Alex Grubbs
FIRST CELESTIAL: HUNG WA………………………………………………….Angel Lin
CHARLES CONNOR……………………………………………………………..Will Turner
FRANCIS WEATHERBY………………………………….Douglas Waterbury-Tieman
Additional characters played by the ensemble.
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2019
Joe’s Pub/Musical Theatre Factory 2019
Concert reading (Dir. Seonjae Kim)
MTF Studio 2018
(Dramaturg: Mei Ann Teo)
Playwrights Realm 2018
Workshop (Dir. Seonjae Kim)
Ma-Yi Studios 2018
Workshop
Flea Theater 2017
Workshop