Publisher's Synopsis
With book, music and lyrics by Scott Miller, JOHNNY APPLEWEED is a stoner political satire, 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 issues like American party politics, the War on Terror, the American culture of violence, gay marriage, the legalization of marijuana, sexual oppression, and increasingly rabid American religious fanaticism, all through the eyes 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. A heady mix of Hair, The Daily Show, the films of Kevin Smith, Waiting for Godot, and The Wizard of Oz, the show debuted in 2006. Songs include "The Ballad of Johnny Appleweed," "The Scheme of Things," "Fucking Up America," "Cannabis Dei," "Weird Isn't Weird," "Going to See the President," "Jesus On the Tube," "A Prayer for Harvard," "Barney," "Fannie Mae's Lament," "Use Your Brain," "Comes a Time," "Holy Fucking Shit," "Here's President Birch," "It's a Leader's Job," "A Prayer for Wal-Mart," "I Tapped That Ass," "It's Up to Us," "I'm a Real Man," "You May Be a Good Man," "What Would Jesus Do?", and "A Great Big Cloud of Smoke."
