Twain’s Classic Still Rings True with LTOTS’ Performance
Photo by Keith Stewart
Josh Houghton, as Mark Twain, looks up at the stars during the Little Theatre’s latest performance of “Big River”.
By Dan Hagen
NP Theatre Critic
“Big River” is a show with big heart that delivers big entertainment.
What could be more natural — and trickier — than marrying the American popular art form of the musical with what a considerable number of people have called the greatest American novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
Mark Twain’s 1884 novel became a successful Broadway musical precisely 100 years later, running for more than a thousand performances. The Little Theatre’s production, directed and choreographed by Kelly Shook, succeeds on the strength of its exemplary cast.