Fair Liberty's Call

07/14/2018

Congratulations to the Fair Liberty's Call company on your very successful performances this week. It was a pleasure and honor to work with such a professional, talented company.

07/03/2018

As we prepare to celebrate America's birthday, which Revolutionary leader said: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." Paul Revere, William Prescott, or John Paul Jones? Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg's "Trend and Tradition." Continue the celebration on July 9th and 13th with Fair Liberty's Call at the Port Washington Library.

06/23/2018

Fair Liberty's Call will be presented on July 9th and 13th at the Port Washington Public Library. Hear about the show during our interview this Friday, June 29th at 10:00 am on the Town of North Hempstead's Project Independence and You Radio Show, WCWP, 88.1 fm.

06/20/2018

First music rehearsal with quintet for Fair Liberty's Call sounds amazing. Strains of The Ash Grove, O' Freedom, O Waly, Waly, and Nottingham Ale.

06/17/2018

As Fair Liberty's Call examines, opinions in America were often bitterly divided. Although the protagonists of our story were new York Patriots, there were many Loyalists (Tories) in the colony who deeply opposed the war with Great Britain. This article describes a little known event in America's fight for freedom.

One of the general’s own guards joins the king’s Loyalists in a wide conspiracy.

05/06/2018

I am pleased to welcome Sharaé Moultrie to the cast of Fair Liberty's Call.

04/21/2018

We are thrilled to welcome Berlin Charles to the cast of Fair Liberty's Call. He will play Caleb. Music rehearsals have begun with our musical director, David Barnett.

03/11/2018

Casting Caleb for Fair Liberty’s Call www.fairlibertyscall.com
Late 20’s early 30’s, African American male, strong singer, comfortable with spirituals and blues, able to read music
Fair Liberty’s Call is an original musical based in history with authentic 18th century music. Two staged readings at the Port Washington Library July 9th and 13th. Rehearsals on Saturday afternoons in May (Rockville Centre) and June, July 7, 8 (Port Washington)
Caleb is a key heroic figure. His dilemma is based on the true possibility of being a black man who fights for independence out of conviction only to find himself facing the possibility of re-enslavement in the chaos that occurred following the war - having no alternatives but to flee the United States with the retreating British and the blacks who were loyal to England.
Please send resume in body of an email with subject heading “Caleb- Fair Liberty’s Call”, headshot, and any work samples to [email protected] and [email protected]

02/07/2018

We are thrilled and very excited to announce that this July's
Fair Liberty's Call is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor M. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.

02/02/2018

As we prepare to do Fair Liberty's Call this July, some interesting research. The show takes place during a farewell party in the Edwards' tavern in NY in 1775. Colonials enjoyed their libations and believed that alcohol could cure, strengthen, and make the world a better place. Some interesting drinks were named Rattle-Skull, Stonewall, Bogus, Blackstrap, Bombo, Mimbo, Whistle Belly, Syllabub, Sling, Toddy, and Flip. And if you imbibed too much you might be afflicted, biggy, boozy, busky, buzzey, cherubimical, cracked, and "halfway to Concord."

01/14/2018

Fair Liberty's Call has received an Action Grant from Humanities New York for our July performances at the Port Washington Public Library. www.humanitiesny.org

12/30/2017

"We wish you Health and good fires; victuals, drink and good stomachs, innocent diversion, and good company; honest trading, and good success; loving courtship, and good wives and lastly a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." (The Christmas Frolick)