Blanchard and McLane appeared in the 2004 off-Broadway musical, Johnny Guitar. For Johnny Guitar, McLane received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical and Drama League Honor for Distinguished Performance in the Theater. That same year, she also received a Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her role of Phyllis in Follies at the Signature Theater in DC.
Sundown, a musical about the legendary Doc Holliday, has lyrics by Larry Rosler and a book by Joe Bravaco and Rosler. The show, a participant in Stephen Schwartz's ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in 2000, was seen at Barter Theatre in Virginia and Lyric Stage in Texas, where it was nominated by the Dallas Theatre League for Best New Play or Musical of 2001.