Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is a musical with a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by William Finn, based on the 2006 film written by Michael Arndt. When young Olive Hoover gets a place in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant in California, her struggling family (a self-help entrepreneur father, an overstretched mother, an uncle recovering from a suicide attempt, a teenage brother under a vow of silence and a hedonistic grandfather who coaches her routine) pile into an ageing yellow Volkswagen camper van for the road trip from New Mexico.