Music & Lyrics by Dylan Glatthorn

Book & Lyrics by Will Lacker

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THE PELICAN. A new musical set in a near-future Florida where hurricanes, rising sea levels, and an overall warming of the globe have reduced a once-bustling coastal town to a few square miles of precious dry land.

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Most of the former residents have fled, seeking an easier way of life that isn’t lived at the whim of a dangerous and unpredictable environment. Our characters live amongst sunken houses, washed-out stores, and the other bones that remain of the modern world.

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One of the few buildings still standing on this patch of land is The Pelican, a dive bar that has now become the epicenter of the town. The bar’s owners and regulars are a handful of people as colorful as a Florida man’s farmer tan.

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Across the bay from The Pelican looms a brand new “corporate city”—where residents are promised stability and security in exchange for shiny, prefabricated lives, corporate servitude, and restricted liberties. When a new category of hurricane threatens The Pelican, the people of the town are forced to make a life-altering decision: leave and sacrifice the lives they know for safety, or stay and try to keep their town alive.