New York Musical Festival and Ladyship Limited Liability Company
In association with Visceral Entertainment Present

LADYSHIP The Musical
https://ladyship.twigs.com
@LadyshipMusical

Book, Music & Lyrics by LAURA GOOD & LINDA GOOD

Starring

MADDIE SHEA BALDWIN, JENNIFER BLOOD, JORDON BOLDEN, CAITLIN COHN, NOELLE HOGAN,
JUSTIN R.G. HOLCOMB, LISA KARLIN, BRANDI KNOW, QUENTIN OLIVER LEE, TREVOR ST. JOHN-GILBERT

Direction: SAMANTHA SALTZMAN
Music Director: SIMONE ALLEN
Choreography: SARA BRIANS

The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
480 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues)
7/10 @ 8pm, 7/12 @ 5pm, 7/13 @ 1pm, 7/14 @ 5pm, 7/14 @ 9pm
www.nymf.org

Unfortunately I was unable to see the full-fledged performance of Laura and Linda Good’s LADYSHIP The Musical. The leading lady of the show, Maddie Shea Baldwin, suddenly became ill, and a last-minute emergency decision resulted in the production being performed as a chorus. But I was able to see were the several positive aspects of this musical.

In celebration of survival from a female perspective and based on true events, the plot centers around women convicted of petty crimes and held captive on a ship traveling from London to Australia in 1789. The Good sisters, aka the acclaimed rock duo The Twigs, created songs with a contemporary alternative pop score that deal with the age-old problems of social class, poverty, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination. If only we could say that these topics are irrelevant today, but alas we can’t. As the US Soccer Team chants “Equal Pay,” the Me Too Movement grows every day, the poor get poorer, and we house people looking for a better life in cages, LADYSHIP could easily become a tribute to hope, resiliency, survival, and the power of female determination.

- Laurie Lawson -