HEE HAW Musical to Get Staged NYC Reading in December

According to an Equity casting notice, a musical based on HEE HAW, the television series that ran 1969-71, is set to get a staged reading on December 2-13 at Pearl Studios.

The project will be directed by Michael Barakiva, and will feature a book by Robert Horn, with music and lyrics by Shane McAnally and BRandy Clark

Hee Haw was an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969-1971 before a 20-year run in localsyndication.

The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical, and was centered on country music and rural Southern culture. Co-hosted by country artists Buck Owens and Roy Clark for most of the series' run, the show was equally well known for its voluptuous, scantily-clad women in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits and country-styleminidresses, and its cornpone humor.