Playwrights: Van Hoogstraten, Silvestri & Higgins

Director: Robert Love

Musical

$22

This laugh-filled musical based on the legendary Joan Crawford cult Western embraces and sends up 50s-style movie acting, melodramatic romance and rough-and-tumble cowboy action. Featuring a sensational score with echoes of doo-wop and steamy Southwestern ballads, "Johnny Guitar" tells the story of a sultry saloon keeper and her jealous nemesis, the town’s tycoon.

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