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Mark Twain and the Laughing River

Presented by Lee College at Lee College Performing Arts Center

February 6, 2009

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Lee College Theatre Department in Baytown, TX opens their new Performing Arts Center with a presentation of a one man musical written and performed by professional playwright and musician Jim Post.

Mark Twain and the Laughing River is rich with stories from the childhood of Samual Clements (aka Mark Twain) and the music will have your fingers snapping, your head bobbing and your feet tapping! A thoroughly enjoyable evening!

Mark Twain said that his childhood was "the wellspring of [his] clearest inspiration." Jim Post took Twain at his word and wrote this delightful family show, joyously recalling Hannibal, a boy's paradise with a buckskin spirit of adventure.

One-hour-and-forty-five minutes of Twainian wit and wisdom plus the brilliant, jubilant music you've come to expect from Post.

"Post's depiction of Mark Twain is nothing less than brilliant, and each sentence and song is a gem...nothing but kudos from our audience members of all ages...This is a show that should be on Broadway." -- Smithsonian Institution

"The show is worth it for the music alone!" -- Roy Leonard "Post focuses on Twain's younger days and he can cut-up like the kid he ardently invokes in this perfect show." -- Chicago Tribune

Mark Twain and the Laughing River is a rousing and affectionate work that looks at the river through the eyes of the man that loved it so much he took his pen name from riverboat lingo... The mighty Mississippi is the heartbeat of the land, Post reminds us, and by the end of this ideal family show your heart should be beating a little stronger too. ____ Sun Times J

im Post mines heartfelt hilarity from the earlier days of our most American writer. Crucially, a river runs through this show, roaring into the boy's dreams. You feel the down-home decency in the jubilant opener, OE Mighty Big River.

An easy winner, Post's American anthem captures the rolling zest of a nation's --an a Missouri boy's-- untamed future. This is a perfect show _____ Chicago Tribune