Floyd Collins at The Western Stage

This haunting musical - from the Tony Award winning composer of "Light in the Piazza" - tells the transcendent true tale of an American Dreamer. In 1925, while chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning a Kentucky cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself becomes the attraction when he gets trapped 200 feet underground. Alone but for sporadic contact with the outside world, Floyd fights for his sanity and, ultimately, his life as the rescue effort above explodes into the first genuine media circus. Reporters and gawkers from across the country descend on the property, fueling the hysteria and manipulating the nation into holding its collective breath. FLOYD COLLINS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Authors

• Adam Guettel
• Tina Landau