Overview
Character Name
Elisha Whitney
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Child, Early Teen, Late Teen
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Baritone
Vocal Range
High Note: D4
Low Note: C3
Time & Place
The S.S. American, early 1930’s
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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