Theater review: In the mid-1980s, Broadway tasked country artist Roger Miller with writing the music for a new adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel.
Eric Amundson and the company of “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” at Mercury Theater Chicago.
Twain’s story of Huck, Tom Sawyer and the runaway slave Jim reflects its time in language and focus: notwithstanding his progressive values for his era, Twain cast the story as a coming-of-age for Huck, who is at the center of the narrative, and not Jim.
Carter has foregrounded Jim far more than was previously typical, even in places where he does not get much help from the material, and Carter’s made a notably successful effort to emphasize the pain inherent to the story by moving swiftly back and forth between musical numbers, rarely pausing for any applause.
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