Overview
Character Name
Elisha Whitney
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dramatic Function
Authority Figure, Comic Relief
Relationships
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Baritone
Vocal Range
High Note: D4
Low Note: C3
Time & Place
Set aboard the ocean liner S.S. American as it sails from New York to London in the early 1930s.
Analysis
Eli Whitney is a buffoonish Wall Street tycoon, a proud Yale graduate, and a marvelously functional drunk. Near-sighted and bereft of his spectacles early in the play, the actor playing Whitney must be an excellent physical comedian in order to enact the physical gags that
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