Johnny Guitar
by Joel Higgins, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, Martin Silvestri

Off-Broadway
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Highlights

Wild WestReduced Casting (Doubling Possible)Unit Set/Multiple SettingsPeriod Costumes

Synopsis

This laugh-filled musical based on the legendary Joan Crawford cult western 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 and steamy southwestern ballads, Johnny Guitar tells the story of a sultry saloon keeper and her jealous nemesis, the town’s tycoon.

When a handsome stranger with a secret past rides into town, the stage is set for a hilarious showdown unike anything the Old West – or the theatre – has ever seen!

Press Reviews

"Screwy fun! A rip-snorting, bang ’em up, rootin’, tootin’ good time!"

— WOR Radio

"Staged with the agreeable goofiness of a Mel Brooks spoof."

— Newsday

Publication

BindingPaperback
ISBN-139780573623349
ISBN-100573623341

Johnny Guitar is a play written by Joel Higgins and published by Concord Theatricals.

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