5Q: Paint Your Wagon
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process.
A sweeping saga of the West and the pursuit of the “American Dream,” the musical
Paint Your Wagon tells the inspiring story of the rise and fall of a remote mining town during the height of the California Gold Rush. The new book for
Paint Your Wagon, written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Jon Marans, includes additional narratives from the era that were left out of the original version, making the story more inclusive of diverse histories, experiences, and identities.