Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — During a late January tour of Mammoth Cave, the guide clapped his hands, and the already dim lights went out.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for a destination that ...

Roger Brucker in Crystal Cave. Western Kentucky became the site of a media sensation in 1925 when a man named Floyd Collins ended up trapped 200 feet underground. A revised third edition of a book ...

Floyd Collins is based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky, 1925. While chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning Sand Cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself becomes ...

Jeremy Jordan is returning to the boards in the long-awaited Broadway premiere of Tina Landau and Adam Guettel's acclaimed 1996 musical Floyd Collins — and PEOPLE has an exclusive sneak peek at the ...

Director Tina Landau had Idina Menzel climbing a tree earlier this season in the original Broadway musical Redwood. Now, she has hurled Jeremy Jordan down a cave for over two and a half hours in a ...

NEW YORK — In the first moments of Tina Landau and Adam Guettel’s “Floyd Collins,” the spring musical at Lincoln Center set in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky in 1925, the titular impoverished ...

Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins became a national sensation in 1925 when he became trapped inside a cave for 17 days. Collins' entrapment and death drew national media attention, with newspapers ...