Come Enjoy The High-Spirited Life on the Mississippi: The Musical! Direct from New York!

Hartford, Connecticut - The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Workshop Theater Company present the exciting new musical play Life on the Mississippi for two performances only--on Friday, December 13 at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, December 14 at 2:00 p.m. in the Mark Twain House Museum Center.

Currently running Off-Broadway at Workshop Theater Company, this new production comes direct to Hartford!  It's a musical version of Mark Twain's classic memoir Life on the Mississippi.  Hair-raising, hilarious, life-changing and violent are just some of the currents that steamboat pilot Sam Clemens has to navigate in this musical journey.  Young Sam Clemens and his brother Henry step onto a Mississippi steamboat and aboard the chance of a lifetime.  As a cub apprentice, his burning ambition propels him to become a steamboat pilot, but he soon discovers that learning the great, relentless river will be harder than he ever imagined.  Now Sam must plot a course through the dangerous currents, as mysterious as the Mississippi itself.  Book, Music & Lyrics by Philip W. Hall.  Directed by Susanna Frazer. Presented by the Workshop Theater Company.

Seating is first-come/first-served.  Free-will offering accepted.  This special presentation is a benefit for The Mark Twain House & Museum.

"Ninety-five minutes I wished would NEVER end!" - Bloomberg Radio

"Four stars!  A humble piece of theater that somehow summons the wide picture of life on the Mississippi river." - Examiner.com

Sponsored by First Niagara Foundation.

The Mark Twain House & Museum (www.marktwainhouse.org ) has restored the author's Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

In addition to providing tours of Twain's restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain's literary legacy and provide information about his life and times.

The house and museum at 351 Farmington Ave. are open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5:30 p.m.  For more information, call 860-247-0998 or visit www.marktwainhouse.org.

Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are made possible in part by support from the Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development, Office of the Arts, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign.