The Sunny Hours Musical Overview

The Sunny Hours is a story of resilience, destiny and love based on the life of a real person, Catherine, born in Seattle in 1922. The story travels forward and backward in time as Catherine colorfully inspirits a life-journey spotlit with joy, hardship and history. The action opens with a swirling memory-with-a-twist: a 1940’s Seattle neighborhood ballroom where we encounter our characters and see hints of events to come. Catherine, a spirited girl ahead of her time, overcomes much adversity to attend college (unusual for a young woman of her era). Catherine and her friends join a Hiking Club, led by the college Jesuit Priests, which offers much needed (and at 50 cents, affordable) relief from books, work and the lingering pall of the Great Depression. Catherine eventually meets a student she feels is her love and destiny. With no ‘straight-line’ to young Gene, she dates George, which unravels badly as you'll see in the video. As other travails such as Polio and WWII crash her way, Catherine’s resilience and buoyancy is unwavering…then toss in a few unexpected left-turns as time passes (raising 12 children for example), Catherine’s joyful ability to ‘make all the sunny hours count’ is an uplifting, inspiring, thought-provoking and poignant story—a musical that will stay with you long after your trip to the theatre ends.