![]() ![]() ![]() Jenkins as Huckleberry Finn, Ron Richardson as Jim, with Susan Browning, Gordon Connell as Mark Twain, Patti Cohenour, Jennifer Leigh Warren as Alice's Daughter and John Short.Ī critically acclaimed revival, directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun, opened on Broadway on Jat the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 67 performances and 28 previews. The cast featured René Auberjonois as The Duke, Bob Gunton as The King, John Goodman as Pap Finn, Daniel H. The Broadway production, directed by Des McAnuff and choreographed by Janet Watson, opened on Apat the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, and closed on September 20, 1987, running for 1,005 performances. The first productions were staged by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February 1984 and at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, from June through July 1984. Big River won 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The 1985 Broadway production ran for more than 1,000 performances and it remained one of the few very successful American musicals in the mid-1980s among the emerging successes coming from Great Britain. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Ĭover and App icon is the picture of the painter Edward Winsor Kemble.Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with music and lyrics by Roger Miller, and a book by William Hauptman.īased on Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it features music in the bluegrass and country styles in keeping with the setting of the novel. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. ![]() Series: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ![]()
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