Tags: Musical.
Carnival in Flanders is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges lyrics by Johnny Burke and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Based on the 1934 French comedy film La Kermesse Héroïque it is set in 1616 in the small Flemish village of Flackenburg where a Spanish duke and his entourage descend upon the community. The mayor plays dead hoping that his ruse will force the visitors to depart but the duke sets his sights on the man’s widow and begins to woo her.