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                                                        SAMPLE DIALOGUE


                                                                    WILT

I told you so, confound it!

                                                             HENRIETTE 

The police were very kind. They took us home in their squad car as soon as they found out we were at the University. One of them even  asked if he might call on me -                                               

                                                                       WILT

Call on you? Impertinent young puppy!    

                                                               HENRIETTE

He was very considerate -walked me up to our door. It quite a splendid adventure really.  

                                                                    WILT

How do you think your "splendid adventure" makes us looks?  I can see the headlines --  "English graduate student nabbed in police raid!"


                                                           HENRIETTE

Oh, that's all right. I said I was studying French. They seemed to understand.

                                                                   WILT

French?

                                                             HENRIETTE

Well, I am. I'm reading Sardou - you know, the playwright --     

                                                                   WILT
                                                                                                                                                                                                .                                                                      

I know. He writes asinine stuff.

                                                             HENRIETTE

Well, it may not be very intellectual, sir, that's quite true.                                                                                      
But he was popular. I'm interested in popular theater. [Eagerly, enthusiastically] Did you know there was a whole popular theater by the Swedes here in Chicago-  

                                                                WILT                                                                                                                   

Of course I do.


                                                         HENRIETTE

Well, (Defiantly) I'm going to study ...

                                                               WILT

Study what you d....  confoundedly well like. Just study.                                                                                                                                               



                                                        HENRIETTE


Do you think I don't? Have you looked at my academic record, 

                                                              WILT

Oh, your grades are all right, but ...

                                                          HENRIETTE

What?    


                                                          WILT    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       You waste time. Dance halls, baseball games ....

                                                       HENRIETTE

Yes. The Sox. 

                                                           WILT

Eh?

                                                         HENRIETTE

The White Sox.  
                                                                                                                           
                                                       WILT
                                                                                                                                                           
What?  


                                                        HENRIETTE

(Raising her voice) That's the name of a team. 

                                                          WILT

No need to shout. I'm not deaf. Frivolous, Frivolous!                                                  


                                                     HENRIETTE
                                                                                                                                 If you're finished, Mr. Wilt --                                                                                                                 



                                                      WILT

                                                                                                                                                                
No, damn it, I'm not finished. Do something useful with all that spare time you seem to have. Go to the theater!    


                                                    HENRIETTE   
                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                 
Are you telling me how to behave?   

                                                      WILT                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                     
With me.      


                                                  HENRIETTE    
                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                     Because I won't - what?                                                                                                                                                                             



                                                    WILT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Come to the theater with me. Well -- there. What do you say? 

                                                 HENRIETTE                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                 Oh!

                                                     WILT

Oh, what?

                                                  HENRIETTE

Oh -- yes -- !                       
         "WHEN LILACS BLOOM AGAIN IN THE DOORYARD"

                                        Synopsis

"When Lilacs Bloom in the Dooryard," originally titled, "Henriette, the Queen," is a short, but incredibly tuneful,  musical written in honor and memory of Henriette C. K. Naeseth, a beloved teacher and Chair of the English Department at Augustana  College, Rock Island, Illinois by  two of her former students, Dr. Ann Boaden and Joan Beaumont. 

The musical traces Henriette's life, from her childhood in Deborah, Iowa to her eventual employment by Dr. Andreen at Augustana College.

Along the way, we revisit her student days at the University of Chicago, her relationship with Napier Wilt - the sometime Chair of the English Department there, and her arrest in a Chicago speakeasy. We also become acquainted with her love of theater and the Chicago White Sox. 

This is an ideal vehicle for two actor/soloist and a small chorus, with the chorus members doubling as the lesser principals. 


                                          CAST LIST

NARRATOR

HENRIETTE C. K (KOREN) NAESETH             
A child, a student, a  professor of English, and the central character.

MRS. OLSEN                            
A well-meaning neighbor in Decorah, Iowa.

MRS. NAESETH                       
Henriette's mother. A "progressive" thinker.

NAPIER WILT                          
Professor of English, and sometime chair of
the English Department, University of                                                                                                           Chicago. Henriette's significant other

DR. GUSTAV ANDREEN       
President, Augustana College, Rock Island,  Illinois

SMALL CHORUS
Chorus members "double" as lesser principals. 


                               
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