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	Floyd Collins (musical) at AllExperts
		Floyd Collins is a musical based on the death of Floyd Collins near Cave City, Kentucky in the winter of 1925.
		Floyd, exploring Sand Cave, uses the echoes of his voice to sound out the region, and falls through a tight passageway when his foot became trapped, wedged in position by a small rock.
		William Burke "Skeets" Miller, a small man, is able to squeeze through and visit with Floyd, relaying stories which were printed in the news.Despite efforts by miners, the National Guard and the Red Cross, attempts at rescue fail, and the crowd grows outside the cave as a media circus ensues.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fl/floyd_collins_(musical).htm (374 words)

	Floyd Collins
		Floyd Collins is based on the true story of a Kentucky caver who got trapped while exploring Sand Cave, and his ordeal from January 30 to February 16, 1925.
		The musical Floyd Collins, written by Adam Guettel (music/lyrics) and Tina Landau (book/additional lyrics), was commissioned by the American Music Theater Festival (now the Prince Music Theater), Philadelphia, and premiered by AMTF at Plays and Players in Philadelphia from April 9- 24, 1994.
		The cast included Jim Morlino as Floyd Collins, Jason Danieley as Homer Collins, Floyd's younger brother, Theresa McCarthy as Nellie Collins, Floyd's sister, and Stephen Lee Anderson as Johnnie Gerald, a role that was subsequently eliminated in favor of incorporating the character into a composite with Homer Collins.
	floydcollins.tripod.com (373 words)

	Floyd Collins (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Floyd Collins is a musical based on the death of Floyd Collins near Cave City, Kentucky in the winter of 1925.
		Floyd, exploring Sand Cave, uses the echoes of his voice to sound out the region, and falls through a tight passageway when his foot became trapped, wedged in position by a small rock.
		As originally written in 1994, the character list included Floyd Collins, Homer Collins, Nelly Collins, and Johnnie Gerald; as rewritten the role of Johnnie Gerald was merged with that of Homer Collins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd_Collins_(musical) (407 words)

	Floyd Collins: Theatre: Joseph Bowen: CenterstageChicago.com
		Floyd finds a sand cave, and in a brilliant musical number ("The Call") sings a trio with the echoes of his own voice.
		Floyd Collins is as much the story of Floyd's family and the media circus that follows as it is the story of Floyd himself.
		Floyd Collins' story was the third biggest news event between World Wars I and II, a story only eclipsed by Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic flight and the Lindbergh kidnapping.
	centerstage.net /theatre/articles/floydcollins.html (704 words)

	Caver's tragedy lives on in musical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Floyd Collins' score was written by Adam Guettel, whose Tony award-winning Light in the Piazza is one of those rare Broadway shows that's sheerly incredible.
		Collins was looking for glory and some money by opening the cave as a tourist attraction so his family would be secure.
		Floyd Collins is co-produced with the Kennedy-affiliated Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Department at Arizona State University's West Campus, where it runs March 29-April 2, at Second Stage West Theater, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road.
	www.azcentral.com /community/phoenix/articles/0318phx-arts0318Z3.html (599 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta
		In writing the music and lyrics for Floyd Collins, Guettel seems to be both carrying on a family tradition and rebelling against it.
		Musical theater is in large part about the interplay of song and motion, so it seems an act of pure cussedness for Floyd Collins to keep its main character immobile for nearly its entire running time.
		Floyd Collins takes its subject from the true story of a Kentucky man trapped in a cave for two weeks in 1925, setting off a media sensation.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:8400 (707 words)

	The Record - Berkshire's 'Floyd Collins' approaches brilliance
		"Floyd Collins" is based on the true story of a 38-year-old man who in 1925 explored caves in the hope of finding a new tourist attraction that would make him rich.
		Collins' is not a greedy or needy man doing a dangerous thing just to become rich.
		Linda Dowdell's musical direction is as good as Coseglia's stage direction, as she smartly accommodates the music for individual strengths - and weaknesses.
	www.troyrecord.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11984122&BRD=1170&PAG=461&dept_id=32272&rfi=6 (917 words)

	Brilliant score helps rescue 'Floyd Collins'
		Floyd Collins, one of Guettel's earlier musicals, is having its local debut in a fine production as the first musical presented by iTheatre Collaborative, a small creative troupe.
		The Floyd Collins story is engrossing and engaging.
		Floyd Collins is an impressive musical, and iTheatre Collaborative's drivingly intense staging is a rewarding treat.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/0317floydrev17.html (384 words)

	zingmagazine \| issue #4 \| reviews \| floyd collins
		Musicals evoke images of times past, when Broadway was booming, when investors made money instead of losing it on large, flamboyant Andrew Lloyd Weber-esque extravaganzas.
		Floyd, eager to escape the rural and poverty-stricken life he leads, believes that he has found the greatest find of all, a cavern with linking tunnels to all of the caves in the region.
		Floyd is seeking his fortune to escape the confines of his limited existence, yet it is his very ticket out of "Barren County" that buries him alive.
	www.zingmagazine.com /zing4/reviews/09collins.html (583 words)

	University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Scarlets Web - 2/20/03
		Floyd Collins' brother and sister comfort him during the attempt to rescue him from Sand Cave in the musical Floyd Collins.
		Floyd Collins is based on true events that occurred near Cave City, Ky., in the winter of 1925.
		Floyd Collins was an avid explorer of the many caves located in the area, which many landowners opened to the public for tourism.
	www.unl.edu /scarlet/v13n6/v13n6arts.html (1335 words)

	FloydCollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Floyd Collins became a nationally known rural hero in 1925, not for what he did but for what he couldn’t do.
		Floyd was determined to find a link from the Mammoth Cave System to the little cave near his home, so visitors would stop by their unknown community and bring some much needed tourist dollars.
		A musical presentation of the story of Floyd Collins was commissioned in 1994, with productions opening in various cities.
	www.reviewplays.com /floydcollins.htm (827 words)

	Adam Guettel's "Floyd Collins" at iTheatre Collaborative-3/17 to 3/26/06
		Collins (Patrick Dulaney) was a Kentucky caver in 1925 that became stuck in a cavern, prompting a weeks-long media circus as America read the daily exploits of his family and others to extract him.
		While the subject matter is dire and the music and lyrics are intense, the largest problem is the inconsistency of the cast.
		Others, such as Robert Vance as Floyd’s dapper brother Homer, Greg Alkema as the heroic reporter “Skeets” Miller, Bruce Alvin as Papa Lee Collins, and David Roberts as the haughty H.T. Carmichael have several highlight moments of acting and singing that balance some of their struggles with text and score.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /FloydCollins_iTC.html (605 words)

	Floyd Collins - The Guide to Musical Theatre
		Floyd Collins was commissioned by The American Musical Theatre Festival in Philadelphia, which produced its world première in 1994.
		In 1925, while chasing a dream of fame and fortune turning a Kentucky cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself becomes the attraction when he gets trapped 200 feet underground.
		This haunting musical - one of the most acclaimed in recent years - boasts a distinguished score as memorable as it is engaging, as it tells the transcendent tale of a true American dreamer.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_f/floyd_collins.htm (167 words)

	MPR: Buried Alive
		In 1925, Collins was exploring a narrow network of tunnels on a neighbor's property when a rock slid and trapped him.
		Adam Guettel wrote the music for "Floyd Collins." Guettel is the grandson of Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
		When word got out that Floyd Collins was stuck underground, the American media went into a frenzy, the first of its kind, often reporting exaggerations of the truth or outright fabrications.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/04/19/floydcollins/?rsssource=1 (1080 words)

	These musicals don't strike the right balance - The Boston Globe
		SHEFFIELD -- "Sweet Charity" and "Floyd Collins" are at opposite ends of the musical spectrum, which is perhaps why neither is a fully satisfying theater piece.
		If Fosse made most of "Sweet Charity" too crowd-pleasingly silly, Adam Guettel goes in the other direction with "Floyd Collins," which is based on the true story of a Kentucky spelunker trapped in a cave in 1925, an event that set off a media feeding frenzy.
		Like many of his contemporaries who write for the musical theater, he has wound up in a no-man's land that is as inviting as a dark, cold Kentucky cave.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/06/30/these_musicals_dont_strike_the_right_balance (830 words)

	Floyd Collins
		Floyd Collins was premiered at the American Music Theater Festival in 1994 and subsequently enjoyed a short run at New York's Playwright's Horizons in 1996 where it received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical.
		Parade), Adam Guettel is one of a new generation of American musical theatre composers who seem set to move the art form beyond the doldrums of the mega-spectacle or compilation show and ensure its health as an intelligent and challenging form of entertainment into the next century.
		Jill Martin is particularly moving in the role of Miss Jane, Floyd's stepmother, as she tries to hold her increasingly warring family together in the midst of a crisis she cannot fully comprehend.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/FloydCollins.htm (787 words)

	Floyd Collins Musical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the small town of Cave City, KY in the cold winter of 1925 a man laid trapped under 150 feet of earth and rock.
		Though attempts were made to free Floyd Collins, he died on February 13, 1925 now known as "Hoo-doo Day" in cave country.
		Floyd Collins ran at Playwrights Horizon's stage from February 9-March 24th, 1996.
	www.angelfire.com /musicals/floydcollins (162 words)

	JS Online: Composer finds his inspiration at several levels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1925, a backwoods Kentucky fellow named Floyd Collins slithered into a hole in the ground in hope of discovering a cave spectacular enough to attract tourists and their money.
		He began writing music in his early teens, shortly before his grandfather died, and composed a prize-winning concerto for jazz quartet and orchestra while at Yale.
		"Floyd Collins" was first staged in Philadelphia in 1994, with subsequent productions in San Diego, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and off-Broadway in New York.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/performingarts/jaques/sep00/floyd17091500.asp (866 words)

	Aisle Say: FLOYD COLLINS
		My fellow musical dramatists had any number of things to say about Larson's work, good and bad, but there was a universal consensus that "Rent", though intriguing, was problem-ridden.
		Second: Though of course, a country idiom pervades "Floyd Collins"' music, the score has something much more serious in mind: the bluegrass and western motifs are merely punctuation or stylistic springboards for more complex musical forms and techniques that have their antecedents in the likes of Bartok, Janacek and Stravinsky.
		Floyd (Christopher Innvar) is entering the cave, lowering himself on a rope (via Tina Landau's remarkable symbolic-rather-than-literal staging), singing exuberantly about his hopes and dreams, and decides to test the depth of the place by listening to the echo of his voice.
	www.aislesay.com /NY-FLOYD-COLLINS.html (1354 words)

	MPR: Buried Alive
		Floyd Collins and his younger brother Homer dream of better days.
		Its latest production is "Floyd Collins," the true story of a man who, in his search for fame and glory, ended up digging his own grave.
		"Floyd believes everyone in America will know his name because he's discovered these caves and there will be a place in history books, one sentence with his name," says Rothstein.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/04/19/floydcollins (1080 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Floyd Collins digging deep
		It is the true story of young Floyd Collins, who one day in 1925 left his home in backwoods Kentucky in search of the American dream, and found himself in the heart of a universal nightmare instead when his search for a cave he could turn into a tourist attraction left him trapped deep underground.
		Floyd Collins, the musical, opened Thursday night in the Shaw Festival's Court House Theatre, under the direction of Eda Holmes, with musical direction by Paul Sportelli.
		These are, after all, the heartstrings that must be tugged if we are to care about his plight, once he finds himself with one foot, quite literally, in his grave.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/F/Floyd_Collins/2004/08/28/pf-741969.html (398 words)

	Floyd Collins - The Caver - Trapped! (Home Page)
		Floyd was on his way out of a dangerous unstable passage when a 27 pound rock fell on his foot.
		Floyd's full name was William Floyd, born 20 April 1887 to Leonidas and Martha (Burnett) Collins on Flint Ridge in Edmonson Co KY. Lee and Martha married 28 Dec 1880 in Edmonson Co. They were the only Collins' marrying there thru 1920.
		Floyd's body lies in Crystal Cave in great Grand Canyon halls, but his spirit ranges father within the cavern walls; For he follows ever onward in his quest to find the end, And in his footsteps only will the later cavers wend.
	bluegrassgrotto.org /floyd-c.html (2071 words)

	Fascinating 'Floyd' (April 13, 2001)
		Music historians favorably compare Guettel's score for "Collins" with the music his grandfather, the legendary Richard Rodgers, created for his masterpiece, Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel." Like Billy Bigelow, "Carousel's" tragically flawed central character, Collins fights to understand the meaning of his life.
		Collins dreamed of winning the "cave wars" of rural Kentucky by opening up an underground labyrinth of caves so awe-inspiring they would draw more tourists than others in the area.
		Collins instead received tremendous fame when he became trapped underground, while searching for a way to reach the 350-mile underground Mammoth Cave system.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2001/2001_04_13.floyd13.html (574 words)

	Amazon.com: Floyd Collins (1996 Original Off-Broadway Cast): Music: Adam Guettel,Christopher Innvar,Jason Danieley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Floyd Collins must be the only show in which a person sings in three and four part harmony with his own echo, and does so with such beauty...
		Other peaks in the soundtrack include the reprise of the Ballad of Floyd Collins, which is a repeat of the haunting melody, sung with real raw passion, and the Riddle Song, which demonstrates the vocal prowess of the leading men and the ability for Guettel to write complex yet fun music.
		FLOYD COLLINS is one of those shows that is far more interesting to see than to just hear it on record.
	www.amazon.com /Floyd-Collins-1996-Original-Off-Broadway/dp/B000005J4F (2343 words)

	Weber State’s 'Floyd Collins’ - Entertainment
		Floyd, played by Sean Michael Hunt, is about a boy who goes exploring in a cave, looking for fame and fortune, and gets stuck there.
		Nellie Collins, Floyd’s sister, played by Kara Buhrley-Powell, is seemingly one of the most talented in the play as she does a brilliant job singing “Through the Mountain.”
		“Floyd Collins” is a story with dramatic twists as the time to rescue Floyd draws rapidly to a close, but it’s still a comedy in a fun, playful sense.
	media.www.slccglobelink.com /media/storage/paper442/news/2002/10/29/Entertainment/Weber.State8217s.floyd.Collins8217-308901.shtml?sourcedomain=www.slccglobelink.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (305 words)

	Floyd Collins: Ambitious Outdoor Musical
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		Mike: Floyd Collins is a musical, the story of a cave explorer, Floyd Collins, who in 1925 has a dream of finding an enormous cavern that he could charge admission to and become rich and famous.
		Another site that was interesting had some pictures of other productions as well as the recording of the original Floyd Collins ballad at bluegrassgrotto.org/floyd-c.html.
	www.showbizradio.net /2006/08/11/review-hbp-floyd-collins (1097 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Floyd Collins" in Boston 2/7/01
		Floyd Collins is the true story of a man whose dream is to find the perfect cave that may be turned into a tourist attraction to help raise his family's income.
		Floyd finds his cave, but his dreams are quickly dashed when his foot gets stuck under a hanging rock in the cave.
		Floyd Collins is quite possibly one of the great masterpieces of contemporary American musical theatre and it deserves far better treatment then it is being given at SpeakEasy Stage Company.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/boston/boston4.html (888 words)

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