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How a Kentucky Man Trapped in a Cave Became a Broadway Musical

How a Kentucky Man Trapped in a Cave Became a Broadway Musical
Floyd Collins was pinned under a rock while exploring a cave in 1925. That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway.

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