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ROGER MILLER |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
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Plays by Roger Miller |
Big River | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | MCAD-6147 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: MCA (MCAD-6147) 1985 | doollee no | #124585 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by William Hauptman, Music and lyrics by Roger Miller; based on the novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain | |||||
| Huckleberry Finn has been taken away from his abusive father and placed in the care of Widow Douglas. He is told that he will not get to Heaven if he does not learn to read. He meets his friend Tom Sawyer in their hideaway cave and with some other boys plan to be a gang of robbers. On his way back to the Widow his father grabs him and takes him to his cabin where in a delusional state he tries to kill him. Next day Huck decides to runaway. He kills a pig a splashes its blood around the cabin to make it look like he really has been murdered. He goes to Jackson's Island to hide out. There he discovers Widow Douglas' slave Jim. Huck agrees to help him escape to the North and they set off on the Mississippi | |||||
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