Li’l Abner

Freud Playhouse, Los Angeles

About the Show

This classic American musical features performances by Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard.

Based on the comic strip by Al Capp, Li’l Abner is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies but is also a pointed satire taking on any number of topics, ranging from an incompetent United States federal government to standards of masculinity. The plot centers on two things: first, Dogpatch, the town that is the main setting of the comic strip, has been declared the “most unnecessary town” in the U.S. and is set to be turned into a nuclear testing site; second, the water that Li’l Abner has been drinking all of his life is discovered to be a potion that makes men strong and handsome, but also utterly uninterested in sex.

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