Sundown

Composer	- Peter Link
Lyricist	- Larry Rosler
Writer	- Larry Rosler & Joe Bravaco
Date of 1st/Full Perf	- April 2002 (Lyric Stage, Irving, Texas)

Synopsis / Notes

Sundown retells the events, which occurred in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881, not as history, but as myth, and that with an original twist. Wyatt Earp becomes a largely comic figure - drunken and infantile, while Sundown's hero is the multi-dimensional character of Doc Holliday, who finds himself, like a Wild-West Sisyphus, caught in a cruelly ironic situation.

He is an American icon and the quintessential romantic folk hero. In the authors' take, it is Doc's love for one Kate Fisher that propels him to the gunfight at the Ok Corral, where history and legends are made. Against this dramatic backdrop, there is naturally much tension, but Sundown is, first and fore most, a musical with heart and pathos, and a great deal of humor.