New Musical Based on Mark Twain's Coming of Age Memoir at the Coterie

The image of Mark Twain is so embedded in American culture that it's often forgotten that he was born Samuel Clemens and had an adventurous life prior to writing classic adventures.

By Steve Walker

Kansas City, MO – It is Clemens' early years that is the subject of Life on the Mississippi, a new musical at The Coterie Theatre that chronicles his time as a steamboat pilot, and how his later characters were inspired by people he met during his travels up and down the fabled river. KCUR's Steve Walker reports.



Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi

January 26 - February 28, 2010

The Coterie Theatre


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