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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Shows · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Young Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn get into mischief along the Mississippi, from whitewashing fences to attending their own funeral. Their adventures take a dark turn when they witness a murder in a graveyard and must decide whether to speak up and save an innocent man, risking the wrath of the terrifying Injun Joe.

Opened
2001
Performances
21
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Don SchlitzLyrics: Don SchlitzBook: Ken Ludwig

Productions1 on Broadway

2001 Minskoff Theatre Original. April 26, 2001 · Scott Ellis 21 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International The Adventures of Tom Sawyer matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature6 passages

Two more flops appeared on the Minskoff stage. Saturday Night Fever (10/21/99; 501 performances) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (4/26/2001; 21 performances) were both met with lukewarm reviews and audience apathy. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p377

among the musicals interested in looking at boys’ lives were: Big (1996), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001), a 2003 revival of Big River, Tarzan (2006), Billy Elliot (2008), and Newsies (2012) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172

Joshua Park (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Rosie Perez (References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot), Joely Richardson (Madame Melville), John Ritter (The Dinner Party), The Cast of Stones in His Pocket- Sean Campion & Conleth Hill (Special Awards) book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p424

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—which closed May 13, 2001—haunting Forty-fifth Street until the summer of 2002. (The Minskoff finally re-opened in October 2002 with previews of Dance of the Vampires, after seventy-four dark weeks.) book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p17

Among the ancients of Broadway's musical theater fraternity this made him a veritable child. The same went for 4o-ish Don Schlitz, a Grammy Award-winning country western cross-over composer, who helped turn Mark Twain's Toni Sawyer into The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a very bland musical that opened at the Minskoff Thea… book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-barry-singer#p182

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 217 book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-singer-barry-1957-new-yo#p345

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