Readers'
Favorite Book Award Winner Bronze 2018.
Contemporary
Western Love Story about a bull riding rancher and his deceased best
buddy's Thai immigrant mail order bride. As she discovers the power
of freedom, he discovers he's lost his heart.
When
Weston Beaudurant’s buddy, rodeo clown Cody Goode is killed in a
rodeo accident -- gored by the maniacal bull Baby Face that Weston is
riding, Weston is consumed with guilt. The day after the accident,
while going through Cod’s papers, lawyer Wynona Vasquez discovers
that he had been secretly engaged to a Thai immigrant who is arriving
by train that evening.
Elected
by unanimous decision to be the welcoming committee, Weston arrives
at the train station prepared for anything but the lovely forlorn
creature he finds waiting in the rain. Though appearing waif-like,
Song Phan-Rang is anything but fragile. Her mettle quickly rises to
the surface in her determination to remain in Y-oh-ming.
Forced
together by their circumstances, Weston and Song are explosive. Used
to solitude, Weston is driven crazy by the obliging Song. But as Song
shows her prowess not only as a housekeeper and cook, but as a rider
and rancher as well, Weston discovers that against his best efforts
(and damned if he'll ever admit it) -- he's falling in love.
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Always so
exciting to imagine your dream cast for a novel or a play or a screenplay, it
makes the piece come alive in a way nothing else can—except for the actual
casting for a film or play!
Dream
Cast—Western Song by Leigh Podgorski
Always so
exciting to imagine your dream cast for a novel or a play or a screenplay, it
makes the piece come alive in a way nothing else can—except for the actual
casting for a film or play!
Behold
below, my dream cast for Western Song a timeless love story filled with rich unique
characters played out beneath the wide Wyoming sky about a bull riding rancher
and his recently deceased best buddy’s Thai immigrant mail order bride; as she discovers
the true power of freedom, he discovers he’s lost his heart.
Hollywood
calling!
For Weston
Beaudurant—ruggedly handsome Ewan McGregor. Oh, yeah, any woman’s dream!
Best known
for the TV Series Fargo and the film Beauty and the Beast, Ewan is a versatile
actor with more than 79 credits and counting. Is there a Western in his future?
Michelle Ang is well known around the world for her work as a
regular cast member on the Australian show "Neighbours",
"Outrageous Fortune" and the hit teen show "The Tribe" I
think Michelle would be a perfect romantic Song Phan Rang to Ewan’s Weston.
Of course no
Romance would be complete without a triangle. Well, maybe we could name a few,
but this one not only has a triangle, but two broken-hearted unrequited loves.
Strong,
smart, competent, and beautiful lawyer Wynona Velez loses her heart to, who
else, Weston Beaudurant. And who else to play her but the fabulous Jessica
Alba?
Our second broken heart belongs to, yup, another lawyer, Jack
Deerstalker. Jack is a young, dynamic Native America who is felled by the
beguiling Song. My top pick for Jack, the powerful, compelling actor, Eddie
Spears.
Weston is a powerful presence in the town of Wild River, and
he has a passel of friends. One of his oldest friends is the shaman Mad Bear.
Wise, funny, and mentor to Jack, Mad Bear has a calming aura, though he has
been known to mix it up with the best of them. My dream choice for Mad Bear?
The formidable Graham Greene.
Next to Mad Bear is Zebadiah, Weston’s best friend from their
school days, now married to his little sister Olive. Zeb is staunch and true, a firm stalwart of
the Beaudurant family. Walton Goggins would be my dream pick for this role.
Finally, one of the deepest hearts of the piece is Weston’s
sister, Zeb’s wife, Olive. When the brother and sister lost first their father
and then their mother, it was Olive who held the household together. It is
always Olive to whom Weston turns, though he’ll be durned if he’ll admit it.
Rounding out my dream cast is the lovely and talented Zoe Deschenel as Olive
Chantry.
So, there
you have it.
My very own
Dream Team.
Sometimes,
dreams do come true.
Or, from another great Hollywood “dream”:
”If you build it,
they will come.”*
Stay tuned!
*From the
Book Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
Movie Field of Dreams produced by Kevin
Costner
Leigh
Podgorski’s stage plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York
City and regionally. She had the privilege of interviewing Dr.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross for her one-act play Windstorm, which was
presented as part of the annual festival CelebrateWomen that Leigh
also co-produced. We Are Still Here, the story of Cahuilla Indian
elder Katherine Siva Saubel, was premiered at the Gene Autry Western
Heritage Museum as part of CelebrateWomen 2000. The play has been
presented throughout Southern California at college campuses,
Universities, and Indian Reservations and Casinos.
In
addition to her plays, Leigh has penned several original
award-winning screenplays and several of her monologues have been
published through Meriwether Publishing, Ltd..
Leigh
produced her first documentary, We Are Still Here, based on the play
in 2007, which she also wrote and directed. The film has screened at
the. American Indian Film Festival, Sherman Indian Film Festival, Cal
State San Marcos Native American Film Festival, and the Talking Stick
Film Festival.
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