The Shows

Petticoat Rules: The Jackson Hole Revue
by Mary Murfitt and Pam Drews Phillips
(in rotating repertory with Always...Patsy Cline)
July 8 – July 30

Cissy PattersonOff Square Theatre revives Jackson Hole’s original musical by local composer and pianist Pam Drews Phillips and NY writer Mary Murffit.  This is new version of their earlier success with new songs, new scenes and presented in the new Center for the Arts. Their imaginative score embraces several different musical genres including swing jazz, Broadway and funky C&W. The audiences will be dancing in the aisles.  Last summer, Off Square’s Always… Patsy Cline played to sell-out houses and for six performances only, leaving many sorry they didn’t come early.  Early reservations are encouraged. 

Petticoat Rules is the story of five incredible Jackson Hole women who ran for town council, mayor and sheriff at a time when women didn’t have the right to vote… AND WON!  Their story was written up in the biggest newspapers of the time and may have been part of the catalyst for the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote.  Many of the family names still survive in Jackson.  The musical also follows the story of Cissy Paterson, a modern woman of American and European society and definitely ahead of her time.  She came to Jackson Hole prior to the 1920’s and fell in love with valley and with Cal Carrington – a cowboy working on the Bar B C.  Cissy, the sophisticated Washington D.C. countess and Chicago Sun heiress, and Cal, the sometime horse thief and first-rate ranch hand and guide became legendary.  Their on-again/off-again romance lasted for years.

With a cast of twelve and a five-piece band this is a full-scale musical production.  Off Square Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director, John R. Briggs, directs Petticoat Rules.  Briggs has directed at regional theatres throughout the United States, including Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Theatre, Buffalo Studio Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage Company, and the Barter Theatre.

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