Tin Pan Ali
National Youth Music Theatre Version (1979)
It's the familiar story of Ali Baba, the Arabian peasant whose discovery of a magic cave containing a trove of stolen riches leads to wealth and relentless pursuit by a band of forty thieves, except now the setting is Prohibition-era Chicago, our hero is a street sweeper, and the thieves are a bunch of inept gangsters - a tuneful, charming, inspired adaptation of an old chestnut.
