About This Show

Inspired by Morris B. Kaplan’s Sodom on the Thames and the words and poems of William Johnson Cory and Reginald Brett, Second Viscount Esher

Book by Noah Silva
Music and Lyrics by Peter Charney & Jack Saleeby
Conceptualized Natasha Cole

Bright and Brave: A New Musical  was commissioned by and first presented at Dixon Place in NYC with private funds from the Jerome Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Synopsis
It is England, 1872, and a sense of longing has filled the halls of Eton College. Under the guidance of their controversially progressive tutor, best friends Regy and Chat have found themselves enraptured in what can only be the pure innocence of love. However, with the introduction of a new headmaster and the beginning of their adult lives around the corner, how their relationship will grow is uncertain. Inspired by their real journals, poems, and letters, Bright and Brave follows Regy and Chat through their lives as they struggle with societal pressures, grapple with who they are, and cope with what it means to love.