CHARACTERS

CALAMITY JANE                                         Low G (Opt. F) to D Flat (Opt. E. Flat)

     The hard-bitten, gun-totin’ heroine, who tries to behave like a man but can’t
help loving like a woman. In order to hold her own in a man’s world, she dresses,
speaks, rides and shoots like a man; groomed and dressed in proper feminine
fashion, she is revealed as a beautiful girl – and the transformation is quite startling.

WILD BILL HICKOK                                                                 B Flat to E Natural

     Aged about 35, and a handsome figure of a man, he is an ex-peace-officer turned
professional gambler. Good-natured, with a sense of humour. In love with
Calamity Jane, but doesn’t know it.

LIEUT. DANNY GILMARTIN                                                           B Flat to E Flat

     A young officer attached to the nearby fort. He is the man Calamity Jane dreams
about, but he falls in love with somebody quite different.

KATIE BROWN                                                                     Low F Sharp to C Sharp

     A stage-struck city-girl who poses as a famous actress, but has good looks and talents of her own.

HENRY MILLER                                                                                       Non-singing

     Proprietor of “The Golden Garter”, Deadwood City’s saloon-hotel-theatre.
Aged about 50, he is nervous and erratic-giving the impression that he is constantly only one jump ahead of a nervous breakdown.

SUSAN                                                                                                        Non-singing

     Miller’s young, friendly and pretty niece.

FRANCIS FRYER                                                                                       B Flat to D

     A song-and-dance man more at home in the vaudeville theatres of the Eastern
States than in the Wild West.

ADELAIDE ADAMS                                                         Low F Sharp to B (Opt. D)

     A highly-paid vaudeville star and celebrated “beauty” of the period; off-stage,
a selfish and conceited woman.

RATTLESNAKE                                                                                        Non-singing

     A bewhiskered old fossil who drives the stage-coach.

“DOC” PIERCE                                                                                          Non-singing

     Deadwood City’s doctor-undertaker, with doubtful qualifications but considerable experience.  A poker-playing pal of Hickock’s.

JOE                                                                                                              Non-singing

     Bartender of “The Golden Garter”.

HANK and PETE

     Two Scouts.

COLONEL of Fort Scully.

COWPUNCHERS, BULLWHACKERS, PROSPECTORS, TRAPPERS, INDIANS’ WOMEN OF THE TOWN, CHORUS-GIRLS, OFFICERS, SOLDIERS and their WIVES, STAGE COACH PASSENGERS, Etc.