Lucky Guy (musical)

Lucky Guy is a musical comedy written and directed by Willard Beckham. The piece tells the story of Billy Ray Jackson, a young musician from Oklahoma who wins a songwriting contest and is invited to Nashville to record his song. He becomes the target of the used-car dealer Big Al Wright and the fading star Miss Jeannie Jeannine (the "Queen of Country Music"), who want to steal Billy Ray's song and use it to revitalize Jeannie's career.

Lucky Guy
MusicWillard Beckham
LyricsWillard Beckham
BookWillard Beckham
Productions2011 Off-Broadway

The show premiered on May 19, 2011, Off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theatre, for a planned run through July 24 but closed after just ten days.[1][2] The cast included Kyle Dean Massey (as Billy Ray Jackson), Leslie Jordan (Big Al Wright), Varla Jean Merman (Miss Jeannie Jeannine), Jenn Colella (Chicky Lay), Jim Newman (G. C. Wright), and Savannah Wise (Wanda Clark). A new production of the show was put on by the Center For Theatre Arts, a performing arts school in the Pittsburgh, PA area in 2020. Willard Beckham worked with the executive director of the school, Billy Hartung, to make the show more suitable for a very large high-school age cast.

References

  1. Jones, Kenneth (April 28, 2011). "Lucky Guy, Starring Kyle Dean Massey, Leslie Jordan and Varla Jean Merman, Begins Crooning in NYC". Playbill. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  2. Healy, Patrick (June 6, 2011). "Inside the Financial Wreckage of 'Lucky Guy'". The New York Times. Retrieved December 6, 2019.


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