Overview

The perfect follow-up musical to Smoke on the Mountain and Pumpboys. This foot-stomping country-western romp was an Award-winning Off-Broadway hit. From the composer/lyricist of 3hee (Flight of the Lawn Chair Man), Opal and Eliot Ness in Cleveland. Honky-Tonk Highway is a tribute to that legendary (literally) country-western singer and songwriter: the late, great, (albeit fictional), Clint Colby. The time is 1970. We are at Tucker’s Roadhouse in Alton Falls, Tennessee, where Clint’s rocket-ride-of-a-career began twelve years ago. Clint’s former band, The Mountain Rangers, has reunited tonight for a one-time-only concert to perform Clint’s songs and to reminisce and ruminate about the man they helped make famous. As everyone knows, Clint died a year ago tonight. But his trademark, baby-blue cowboy hat is up on stage with the band. Whichever band member puts on the hat “becomes” Clint, as they flashback to relive the story of Clint’s life, through the autobiographical songs he wrote and made country-western classics. Clint rose from boyhood poverty in a fly-speck town to the glittering heights of stardom in the far-off big cities. Along the way, he did some things rights, some things wrong, and left behind a trail of songs.

Keywords

• Friendship
• Love
• From Off-Broadway