Big Daddy's Cajun Christmas

Cast: 6M, 4F, 1B

Synopsis: Join the feuding DuBois family at Big Daddy's 7Up and Grocery in Louisiana. Evangeline, a conservative English teacher looking for her roots, goes south to her cousin's famous Christmas reunion. Her worried parents follow her, and find that she has fallen in with an itinerant anthropologist and has struck up a strong friendship with La Mont, the storytelling, philandering cousin who alienated them so long ago. Meanwhile, La Mont is battling with the nefarious Farley Shortworth for the family land. The music comes in a variety of styles, and colorful storytelling abounds.

Running time: two hours

Music: Piano score and tape available.

Performance history: BIG DADDY'S CAJUN CHRISTMAS was produced at the Diner Theater in Omaha, NE Nov. 19 - Dec. 23, 1995.

Review: "A delightful family musical set in Louisiana Cajun country during the Christmas season."

Listen to music sample.