Miller: Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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ROGER MILLER
Miller: Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Gordon Connell & Daniel Jenkins / Original Broadway Cast Recording
[ MCA Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 July 1985
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Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with music and lyrics by Roger Miller, and a book by William Hauptman.
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.
Tracks:
Act I
"Overture" - Big River Orchestra
"Do Ya Wanna Go to Heaven" - Company
"The Boys" - Tom Sawyer and The Boys
"Waitin' for the Light to Shine" - Huck
"Guv'ment" - Pap
"Hand For the Hog" - Tom Sawyer
"I, Huckleberry, Me" - Huck
"Muddy Water" - Jim and Huck
"The Crossing" - Slaves
"River in the Rain" - Huck and Jim
"When the Sun Goes Down in the South" - Duke, King, Huck and Jim
Act II
"Ent'racte" - Big River Orchestra
"The Royal Nonesuch" - Duke and the Company
"Worlds Apart" - Jim and Huck
"Arkansas/How Blest We Are" - Fool, Alice's Daughter and the Company
"You Oughta Be Here With Me" - Mary Jane Wilkes, Susan Wilkes and Joanna Wilkes
"How Blest We Are (Reprise)" - Alice, Alice's Daughter, and Bill, A Servant
"Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go" - Mary Jane Wilkes, Jim and Huck
"Waitin' for the Light to Shine (Reprise)" - Huck and the Slaves
"Free At Last" - Jim and the Slaves
"River in the Rain (Reprise)" - Huck and Jim
"Muddy Water (Reprise)" - Company
