Plot
The musical is a dark comical tale that follows the adventures of a charismatic bandit as he courts the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. In the novella is an evil stepmother that wishes her stepdaughter dead and a wicked burglar who carries with him the head of his dead brother in a suitcase. The musical, in essence, is a story with the characteristics of an American fairy tale, based on the 1942 Eudora Welty tale. Seemingly, the story resonates as a form of yarn created from loose threads of mythologies and traditional stories twisted together in a strange ...