COWBOY BOB
Alley Theatre in Houston, World Premiere, March 2023
Created by MOLLY BEACH MURPHY, JEANNA PHILLIPS + ANNIE TIPPE
Music & Lyrics by JEANNA PHILLIPS
Book & Additional Lyrics by MOLLY BEACH MURPHY
Additional Music by ALEX THRAIKILL
Directed + Choreographed by ANNIE TIPPE
About
You wouldn’t look twice at Peggy Jo. She’s a good daughter, always tips, plays by the rules – but when she dons a fake mustache, sunglasses, and ten-gallon hat, she becomes “Cowboy Bob”- the slickest bank robber Texas has ever known. Inspired by actual events, this world-premiere musical tells the story of one of the FBI’s most unusual suspects through the eyes of a chain-restaurant waitress desperate to buck her flavorless life and awaken to all that’s possible. With a genre-bending score that shifts from country to punk to folk and indie rock, Cowboy Bob – co-authored by Galveston’s own Molly Beach Murphy – is a defiant rejection of the status quo, inviting audiences to take life by the reins, join the heist, and let it ride.
Cast
Jackie Burns, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Nathaniel Tenenbaum, Susan Koozin, Jamila Sabares-Klemm, Brandon Hearnsberger, Julia Krohn, Camryn Nunley, Adam Gibbs
Crew
SCENIC DESIGN Diggle
COSTUME DESIGN Haydee Zlidith
LIGHTING DESIGN Christopher Bowser
SOUND DESIGN Jessica Paz
PROJECTION DESIGN Stivo Arnoczy
MD, CONDUCTOR Ada Westfall
ORCHESTRATIONS, ADDITIONAL VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Mike Brun
STAGE MANAGER Erin Gioia Albrecht
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Emma Lai
FIGHT DIRECTOR Adam Noble
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH SALLY CADE HOLMES AND DAVID DENSON (RED TAIL ENTERTAINMENT)
The People of Cowboy Bob
Cowboy Bob has been supported, shaped, and guided by many brilliant minds and big hearts over the past seven years. We are grateful to every actor, musician, stage manager, designer, artistic director, and audience member who has come into contact with the piece. Theater is not created in a vacuum. You’ve helped to make Cowboy Bob what it is today. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NAMES OF THE 100+ PEOPLE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO ITS’ MAKING: https://www.alleytheatre.org/shows-and-events/the-people-of-cowboy-bob/
History
The Habitat – Caroline Gart, Katie Lindsay
NYTW Adelphi Retreat – Rachel Silverman, Jim Nicola, Linda Chapman
Ars Nova – Jason Egan, Emily Shooltz, Eric Shethar
Williams College Summer Lab – Caitlin Sullivan
Yale Institute of Music Theatre – Mark Brokaw, Catherine Sheehy, Scott Frankel
Rockwood Music Hall – SallyCade Holmes
University of the Arts’ Polyphone Festival – César Alvarez
New York Stage and Film – Joanna Pfaelzer, Liz Carlson
The Orchard Project – Ari Edleson
Village Theatre, Seattle – Brandon Ivie, Jerry Dixon
54 Below – Lisa Dozier King
National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT) – Betsy King Militello, Frankie Dailey, Ciera Iveson
AMTP at Northwestern University – David H. Bell, Tanya Palmer, Brannon Bowers
Red Tail Entertainment – David Denson, Brooke LoCoco
Sally Cade Holmes Productions – Sally Cade Holmes
Alley Theatre – Rob Melrose, Dean R. Gladden, Brandon Kahn, Liz Frankel
Press
REVIEW: Alley Theatre’s ‘Cowboy Bob’ is an entertaining blast of Texana
“This is one not to miss, a wholly original and alive work of American theater and pure Texana, packed with killer songwriting and guided by an outlaw spirit that manages to feel both explosive and gentle...At its free-flowing best, “Cowboy Bob” merges the worlds of Peggy and Rena, creating a sense of poetic realism deftly navigated by director/choreographer Annie Tippe. ”
