Why I Live at the P.O.
Costume designs for UrbanArias by Austin Blake Conlee
(Costume designs for UrbanArias by Austin Blake Conlee)
Photo by Stephen Eddins
Setting Information
China Grove, Mississippi, 1941.
Prologue and Epilogue: A few days after the Fourth of July
Scenes 1-6: The Fourth of July
Single set
Prologue and Epilogue: The back room of the China Grove Post Office, downstage right.
Scenes 1-6: The family home (kitchen, living room, Stella-Rondo’s bedroom) upstage center, and the yard with a hammock, downstage left.
Orchestration
Flute (doubling piccolo)
Clarinet 1 (doubling Eb Clarinet)
Clarinet 2 (doubling Bass Clarinet)
Tenor Saxophone (doubling Soprano Sax.)
Bb Trumpet
Tenor Trombone
Piano
String Bass
Percussion:
Drum set
– Bass drum
– 3 Tom-toms
– Snare drum
– Suspended cymbal
– Ride cymbal
– Crash cymbal
Lion’s roar
2 Tam tams
Triangle
Whistle
2 Brake drums
3 Wood blocks
Ratchet
Slapstick
Vibraphone
Tubular bells (D4, D5)