DULA THE MUSICAL

Book by Paul Elliott
Music by Jeanie Cunningham
Lyrics by Elliott & Cunningham

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Dula is first and foremost a love story; the story that began with two men loving two women and ended with three women loving one man.  

From the very first lines of the opening number of this beautiful and powerful musical, it's understood that Dula is not just one story, but many forged into a powerful epic. First, it's the story of a young man who actually lived and loved and dreamed...a simple young man whose life should have passed into happy obscurity...but didn't. 

Dula is also the story of a powerfully turbulent time in American history, the 1860s and a small backwoods town caught in the aftermath of the great Civil War. 

Historically Dula is the story of a love triangle that ended in murder and became this nation's first highly publicized crime of passion...a story that has been passed down for over a hundred and fifty years...through legend and through song...yet the truth of these stories has always been questionable...and now more than ever, we've come to understand that history is only as accurate as the stories that are passed from mouth to mouth.  Fame and infamy are only frames of reference for the tellers and realities can forever be changed by the mighty power of interpretation and agenda.  Even written documents can and have been altered to fit what is politically correct for its time.  

What is the truth?  A man and a woman died.  Why?  That is the story of Dula.