This Broadway musical version of Mark Twain's novel is set in 1840 in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a bustling town on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Along the way he meets a terrifying villain named Injun Joe, Tom's bratty half-brother Sid, and all the other boys and girls in the village.

[1] The musical was directed by Scott Ellis with choreography by David Marques, and featured Joshua Park as Tom Sawyer, Kristen Bell as Becky Thatcher, Jim Poulos as Huckleberry Finn, with Linda Purl (Aunt Polly), Tom Aldredge (Muff Potter), Stephen Lee Anderson (Doc Robinson/Pap), Jane Connell (Widow Douglas), John Dossett (Judge Thatcher) and Kevin Durand (Injun Joe).

Tom's Aunt Polly sends him to school, where he tricks the schoolmaster, Mr. Dobbins, into letting the class have the day off.

The town's outcast and Tom's best friend Huckleberry Finn appears and arranges for the two of them to meet at the local graveyard that night so that Huck can "cure his warts."

That night, Tom and Huck visit the local graveyard and see Doc Robinson, Muff Potter, and Injun Joe, a "half-breed" troublemaker, robbing a man's grave ("Hands All Clean").

When Huck saves old Widow Douglas from the advances of the town drunk, she offers to teach him to read and to live in her home.

Before Tom can be punished, the Sheriff calls Dobbins away, needing a coroner after discovering Doc Robinson's body.

As school ends for the summer, the children celebrate, but their parents remind them that they have chores and that they "can't just sit and twiddle [their] thumbs" ("Ain’t Life Fine").

Aunt Polly and Judge Thatcher, with the rest of the town people, frantically search for them ("Angels Lost").

As the people of St. Petersburg hold a funeral service for the lost children ("Light (Reprise)") Huck, Tom and Becky limp into town.

[2] Bruce Weber in the New York Times found the show missed the subversive edge of Mark Twain's narration, limiting its adult appeal, and more seriously also the novel's verve for the "unharnessed exuberance of childhood", leaving a show that felt tame and middle-of-the-road; although it might have enough to hold the attention of some younger audience members.