BAD WATER BLUES: A CORAL REEF MYSTERY By Richard Hellesen Music and Lyrics by Michael Silversher Directed by John-David Keller Touring January 10 - May 12, 2007
Famed undersea detective Coral Reef is hired by TV executive Leo Carp to solve a strange mystery—why are the singing stars of “American Tidal” suddenly losing their voices whenever they swim in the water off the California coast? Carp suspects that perhaps a sore loser is trying to wipe out the competition, so Coral agrees to take the fishy case. When Dr. Quincy Lungfish discovers that the water doesn’t contain enough oxygen to support marine life, he guesses that someone must be trying to destroy the kelp beds. Coral interrogates several other possible culprits before concluding that perhaps the root of the problem lies on land. So she crawls into The Outfall and makes her way upstream through miles of filthy pipes until she arrives at the home of the Snyders, where she quickly figures out that the ocean is being polluted because humans don’t seem to care where they dump their garbage. After setting them straight, Coral heads back home to the deep blue sea, hopeful that someday soon, the “Bad Water Blues” can be beaten for good.
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