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| Mark Twains Adventures out West! |
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| You will remember
that the music from Mark Twain and the Laughing River
won the American Library Association Award for 1997. Jim's shows
have appeared across America, as well as Europe, from the
Smithsonian Institute to the English Speaking Theatre in Vienna,
Austria! Jim Post, who has been performing Mark Twain and the Laughing River in Galena for the past several years, is now presenting another fabulous show, Mark Twain's Adventures Out West. (It was during the years out West that Twain began his writing career.) The show features Post's new, original songs, accompanied on keyboard and cello by Janet Post. Because Twain sang with a beautiful tenor voice and played banjo, piano, and guitar, and loved to show off at parties, Post is a natural personification. After attending the performance of Mark Twain's Adventures Out West, you will believe you have been to one of Twain's own parties. Twain's travels in the American West took him into the timbered forests and mining country of the 1860s. The play draws from Roughing It, Twain's work which gave birth to the western novel and western movie. Roughing It is a raw look at the early West though the eyes of Mark Twain, the first American novelist to feature the American voice -- that is, the voice of the uneducated, rural American. Jim Post takes the audience along on Twain's adventure to the Nevada Territory. (It was in the Nevada Territory that Sam Clemens adopted the pen name of Mark Twain.) Twain's journeys included a trip to Hawaii and employment with the San Francisco news paper. Join Post for this captivating adventure. Meet desperadoes, prospectors, and a host of unforgettable characters. And all along the journey you are accompanied by matchless wit and wisdom of Twain. Jim Post is exhibited in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (You may have heard his hit song, "Reach Out of the Darkness," featured on television this fall for Milton Bradley's "Get-Together Games.") Post has produced over twenty folk albums and is well-known throughout the mid-West. |
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