Thanks to music and song, the story fictionalized by James Agee about his father’s death and how it affected him and family is more than a pastiche of various ways of dramatizing it. Still, the brand new-musical Knoxville has a number of dramatic antecedents. Happily, they’re mixed well in Frank Galati’s script and his direction of it.
“Knoxville” is a grand opening song that introduces the city in 1915 and a lot of townspeople who will figure in the play. It is a Tennessee equivalent of Grovers Corner in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
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