 The story focuses on the legendary wizard Merlin, not as an elderly man as he is usually depicted, but as a young apprentice still learning the rules of magic.Merlin must overcome the evil Queen and her attempts to install her son Fergus as the King of England over the rightful future King Arthur.During the production number "Put a Little Magic in Your Life", Henning mounted a white horse and rode it into a gigantic box, which was then closed and hoisted into the air above the stage.