A Romantic "Tall Tale" -- Musical Comedy
The Eudora Welty version takes the original folk tale and places it in
the Natchez Trace, Mississippi in the late 18th century where pretty
Rosamond Musgrove lives with her father Clement, a wealthy planter,
and her chilly, jealous stepmother Salome. There she is loved by her
father but treated badly by his wife - never able to please however
little she complains. One day, she is instructed to clean the house
from top to toe, to wash the floor, polish the dishes and shine the
candlesticks until they gleam and glitter in the darkness. That
evening, worn out and disheveled, she meets for the first time the
dashing bandit, Jamie Lockhart, and from then on, her fate is sealed.