When and where will Lil Abner set for this weekend?”
From baldwincity.com: ‘Lil Abner’ set for this weekend The cast of this year’s fall musical, “Lil’ Abner,” have been rehearsing three times a week to prepare for opening night on Friday at 7 p.m. and another performance on Saturday. The fall musical is directed by Baldwin High School English teacher Katherine Cook and music teacher Beth Nelson. “It’s a really funny show,” Nelson said. “There are lots of times during rehearsals that we are all cracking up at the actors or the activity that’s happening on stage.” With opening night around the bend, the cast is in full swing for final preparations. “I think it’s going to be a lot of work but the show will pull together in the end because we have a lot of talented cast members this year,” senior Amelia Wilson said. “We hope that come opening night the show will be able to run smoothly and our audiences will be entertained,” junior Alex Daffern said. The musical includes high-energy songs
Li’l Abner is a musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Based on the comic strip Li’l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies but is also a pointed satire taking on any number of topics, ranging from an incompetent United States federal government to standards of masculinity. Contents [hide] * 1 Synopsis * 2 Song list * 3 Productions * 4 Response * 5 Awards and nominations * 6 See also * 7 References * 8 External links [edit] Synopsis The hillbilly town of Dogpatch USA has been declared the “most unnecessary town” in the U.S. and is set to be turned into a nuclear testing site. At the same time, the baby tonic (Yokumberry Tonic) that Li’l Abner has been fed all his life by his mother, Mammy Yokum, is discovered to be a potion that makes men strong and handsome, but also utterly uninterested in romance. But that fact does not deter Daisy Mae, who is determined to win the handsome–but
