Grief MRS WOODLAWN agrees to allow CADDIE to live an outdoor tomboyĮxistence in an attempt to make her healthy enough to survive the rigors of pioneer life.Īs the years pass CADDIE and her brothers TOM and WARREN become inseparableĬhums and fellow tricksters.

Tragedy strikes the family when baby MARY dies. INDIAN JOHN become friends, bonding over her flaming red hair. WOODLAND, father, welcomes them and agrees to repair their rifles. WhenĪ group of Native Americans, led by INDIAN JOHN, enter, the family is afraid, but MR In the midst of theĮxcitement, young CADDIE is scolded by her mother for her unladylike behavior. Welcome) The WOODLAWNS, appear, freshly arrived from Boston. The stage comes alive with a barn raising. There is also a 1 hour cut, for 8 actors to serve the needs of Theatre for Young Audiences. With doubling and tripling of roles the possibilities are endless. With full casting there are roles for 8 adult men, 7 adult women and 18 children of various ages. Her father, however, encourages her antics, that she might thrive amidst the new, tougher ways of the west.Ĭaddie Woodlawn a Musical Drama is written to be performed by any size theatre group. Caddie (the iconic, high-spirited Wisconsin pioneer girl beloved by generations of readers) leads her willing siblings in a series of thrilling adventures, not always with the approval of her traditional Bostonian mother. She had collected the stories that her grandmother had often recounted of her adventures as a pioneer child settling the wilderness of Wisconsin in the mid 1800’Ĭarol Ryrie Brink's Newberry award-winning novel Caddie Woodlawn has been brought to exuberant life as a musical. In 1935 Carol Ryrie Brink wrote the Newbery-award winning novel, CADDIE WOODLAWN, based on the childhood of her grandmother, Caroline Woodhouse.

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