Big river : the adventures of Huckleberry Finn / music and lyrics by Roger Miller ; book by William Hauptman ; adapted from the novel by Mark Twain, 2003.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

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Since 1970, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) has preserved live theatrical productions and documented the creative contributions of distinguished artists and legendary figures of the theatre. With the consent and cooperation of the theatrical unions and each production's artistic collaborators, TOFT produces video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, as well as dialogues between notable theatre personalities. ...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Calhoun, Jeff.

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Hauptman, William, 1942-

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Playwright and novelist William Thornton Hauptman was born November 26, 1942 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Hauptman has received many grants, and has earned many awards such as a Tony Award for Best Musical Book (Big River, 1985) and the Jesse Jones Award for Best Fiction by a Texas Author from Texas Institute of Letters (for Good Rockin' Tonight and Other Stories, 1986). The Storm Season, originally published by Bantam Books in 1992, was published as a reprint edition by the University of Texas Pres...

Roundabout Theatre Company

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Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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The Mark Taper Forum opened in Los Angeles in 1967 and is known for its development of new plays and voices for the theatre. Located at the Performing Arts Center (formerly The Music Center) in downtown Los Angeles, the Taper has received virtually every theatrical award including the 1977 special Tony for theatrical excellence. It is one of America's top regional theatres, and a number of the plays presented on and off-Broadway and across the country began at the Taper. From the des...

Miller, Roger, 1936-1992

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Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings". After growing up in Oklahoma and serving in the U.S. Army, Miller began his musical career as a songwriter in the late 1950s, writing such hits as "Billy Bayou" and "Home" for Jim Reeves and "Invitation to the Blues" for Ray Price. He later began a recording...

Deaf West Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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