About This Show
Fiercely funny and outrageously original, Scott Miller’s Johnny Appleweed is a fearless political satire of America in the new millennium, guaranteed to outrage while it amuses. It is the first musical ever to make a serious case for the spiritual, existential, and psychological properties of marijuana. Through the lens of this pot-friendly worldview, the show takes aim at hot-button issues like sexuality, obscenity, increasingly rabid American religious fervor, American party politics, the War on Terror, the American culture of violence, gun control, gay marriage, and more, all through the lens of the laidback, neo-mythic purveyor of pot Johnny Appleweed, an itinerant philosopher-stoner, who argues that only through the mind-expanding properties of marijuana can we truly see the Larger Truths, so that we can finally solve our problems and move our civilization forward. The show has been described as a quirky mix of Hair, The Daily Show, the films of Kevin Smith, Waiting for Godot, and The Wizard of Oz.