Do you have an idea for a musical?

Sorry for the long winded preface… but it is necessary.

At a theater meeting tonight we considered the value of a new musical to be OWNED by the community theater.

So I’m looking for ideas of stories that could be written as musicals that are not copyrighted (e.g. Winne the Pooh is out) and hit as many of these as possible:

Has a good story
Is known to adults
Is known to children
Has music in the story
Isn’t about killing
Has multiple known characters
Features kids in the story
Has an education tie in
__(please suggest others!)__

We were thinking about Paul Bunyan, Hiawatha, “Godless Thomas Jefferson,” Plymouth Rock, etc. Please come up with something better!