Tags: Musical.
Foxy is a musical with a book by Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr. lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Robert Emmett Dolan.Based on Ben Jonson’s Volpone it transports the original play’s setting of early-17th century Renaissance Venice to the Yukon during the gold rush of 1898. When prospector Jim Fox confides in buddies Bedrock Shortcut and Buzzard that he’s discovered a mother lode in the Klondike River they set off to claim it as their own.