
JOHNNY GUITAR: THE MUSICAL
April 12 – May 4, 2008
Lyrics & Music by Joel Higgins; Music by Martin Silvestri
2004 by the Outer Critics Circle,
Johnny Guitar is a tuneful, laugh-filled musical comedy that embraces and
sends up Fifties-style movie acting, melodramatic romance, and
rough-and-tumble cowboy action. Featuring a sensational score with echoes of doo-wop songs and steamy southwestern ballads, the musical Johnny Guitar is based on a cult film favorite starring Joan Crawford.
It tells the tale of Vienna, a sultry saloon keeper and her jealous nemesis Emma, the town's tycoon. When Johnny Guitar, a handsome stranger with a secret past, rides into town and faces off with Vienna's lover, the hot-headed Dancin' Kid, the stage is set for a hilarious showdown unlike anything the Old West, or the theatre-has ever seen! Did You See the Show?
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Honored as off-Broadway's Best Musical in 