Possum Point Players Presents BIG RIVER Next Month

Possum Point Players' 50th anniversary season continues with the Award-Winning Broadway Musical, BIG RIVER: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Performances run March 24-April 2.

Mark Twain's beloved classic takes us back to old "Muddy Waters" as Huck Finn and the runaway Jim escape down the mighty Mississippi River in search of freedom.

Huckleberry Finn is a wild child in 1840's Missouri. He roams freely in his small town of St. Petersburg, mostly able to do what he pleases. Trouble arises, however, when his alcoholic and violent father suddenly demands custody over the boy (in order to get at his trust fund).

Fearing for his life, Huck takes off on a raft down the Mississippi River. Along the way, he meets up with a runaway slave, Jim, who is trying to find his wife and children up North.

After a series of adventures and a brief reunion with his best friend, Tom Sawyer, Huck discovers that Jim's owner died and freed Jim in her will: thus Jim is free at last to find his wife and children. For his part, Huck decides to move out West, where no one can civilize him.

Featuring a score from country music legend Roger Miller and a book by William Hauptman, Big River is based 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.

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. Big River won 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

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