Trivia
- In a rare observance of site specificity, the Elmira production took place only seven miles from Mark Twain's actual gravesite, and the Hartford production was held just a mile and a half from Mark Twain's house, now a museum.
- Though Mark Twain is best known for his books, he also wrote several plays and in one instance composed a set of verses extolling his new home in Hartford. These were published in The Traveller's Record, January 1877 and form the basis for The Skating Madrigal in Act One of the musical.
- In a case of life imitating subject, composer/lyricist William Perry achieved academic recognition when Elmira College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters (1984) for his production of the Mark Twain Series on PBS.
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