Galen Butler

World Premiere of QUANAH, Starring Larry Gatlin, Set for Irving Arts Center

QUANAH is a new musical written by and starring Grammy Award-winning country music legend Larry Gatlin.

Lyric Stage presents the World Premiere of Larry Gatlin's QUANAH

Quanah, the Parker Family Saga, is a new musical written by Grammy Award-winning country music legend Larry Gatlin. It is the story of Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief, his mother Cynthia Ann Parker and the Parker Family settling in Texas and the survival and ascendancy of the great Comanche people.  It is, in part, a tragic, sad, heartbreaking story-a story of war, bloodshed, death and heartbreak-but it is, more importantly, a story celebrating the strength and power of the human spirit. Gatlin's wife Janis-who says he is never wrong-believes that it is the best music he has ever written.