Musical / 16m, 9f "The founding fathers got their own musical with 1776, so why not Abe?" - Playbill. com Abe is a new musical about the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The show explores his youth as a flatboat pilot on the Mississippi, his early love for Ann Rutledge, his troubled marriage to the difficult and mentally fragile Mary Todd, and his attempt to be a good father to his sons. The story follows Abe from his earliest attempts at self-improvement through the 1860 election which made him | Abe: A New Musical by Lee Goldsmith, Paperback | Indigo Chapters