Grammy-winning composer Don Schlitz and his Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Joshua Park and Jim Poulos, take the cake at the April 26 opening night party for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Schlitz's first Broadway musical.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, based on the Mark Twain novel of the same name, features Park as the boy on the brink of manhood in pre-Civil War Missouri, who lives with his Aunt Polly (Linda Purl), finds love and adventure with Becky (Kristen Bell) and generally gets in and out of trouble with his gang of friends, including Huckleberry Finn (Poulos). Grammy winner Schlitz crafted the score with a book by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor). Scott Ellis directs the new musical, currently playing at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre.