Greenbrier Ghost is based on the true story of the only known case when the testimony of a ghost was admitted into a murder trial.
Mary Jane Heaster and her husband Jacob have lost their daughter Zona twice: first when she married the town’s new blacksmith Erasmus Shue, and again when she died after only three months of marriage. The town doctor declared Zona died of a heart attack, but Mary Jane begins to have visions of her daughter in which Zona tells what really happened—or was Mary Jane only dreaming? Grief is driving Mary Jane and her sheriff husband Jacob apart, but she convinces him to open an investigation, even as the townswomen speculate who the blacksmith might take as his next bride. The evidence seems circumstantial, but the blacksmith who almost got away with murder is undone by a mother’s love and by the Greenbrier Ghost.
Greenbrier Ghost (Music and Lyrics by Clay Zambo, Book by Susan Murray) runs at
Spirit of Broadway Theatre, Norwich CT, June 30-August 1, 2010. Click for tickets and information.
Demos and performances from the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop presentation and the Western Kentucky University staged reading. Music and lyrics © 2010 by Clay Zambo
Greenbrier Ghost
Nothing More
Let There Be an Answer
Bread and Butter
Shue’s Testimony
