Deadheads – The Musical

by

John Presco

Copyright 2021

An idea for a musical, Broadway Play, and movie.

The infamous Eugene Anarchists take over Ken Kesey Square using the homeless as human shields. Zane Kesey appears before the Eugene City Council to complain about the trashing of his father’s statue that he can’t even approach due to the pit bulls many homeless people have acquired to shield them, make them feel safe. The Hippie and Deadhead movement has lost their way. Nancy, of yogurt fame, knows some action is needed, or, the Emerald Valley and the Dead tradition is lost. Nancy gives her childhood friend a call. She read in the New Yorker Magazine that Berkeley Bill Bolagard has alas published his novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ that he began in 1986 when she suggested at the creamery, that Bill author of the History of the Hippies. Bill was there, at…