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A street singer narrates the tale of a young woman named Brooklyn who grows up in the projects, raised by her grandmother Faith after her father, a Vietnam veteran, and her Parisian mother were torn apart. Brooklyn discovers she has a soaring voice and enters a singing contest at a local bar to win enough money to travel to Paris and find her mother. A modern fairy tale told through a powerhouse pop-soul score.

Opened
2004
Performances
284
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Mark Schoenfeld, Barri McPhersonLyrics: Mark Schoenfeld, Barri McPhersonBook: Mark Schoenfeld, Barri McPherson

Productions1 on Broadway

2004 Plymouth Theatre Original. October 21, 2004 · Jeff Calhoun 284 performances

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In the literature7 passages

A third musical titled Swing was by Elizabeth Swados, and it opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in late 1987. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p402

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (4/19/51; 267 performances), the musical version of Betty Smith’s beloved novel. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p26

Now stage managements found a new ploy to entice the errant cinema audience away from all those old movies on television. The answer was quite simple: give them old movie stories on the stage, complete with new words and music. book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p130

She could not be diverted from the chief end of her life. Her economic security assured, she devoted the rest of her life, with very few interruptions, to producing Shakespeare. book:broadway-atkinson-brooks-1894-1984-rev-ed-new-york-new-york-state-1990-new-york-#p43

Built but never opened, Brooklyn’s Woodhull Medical Center was the perfect location. book:fosse-sam-wasson#p447

The short-​lived Brooklyn came next and then, in 2007, In the Heights, which became a sensation, moving to Broadway and cementing the careers of its creative team and several of its stars, who would go on to even greater fame with Hamilton. book:here-s-to-the-ladies-conversations-with-more-of-the-great-eddie-shapiro-oxford-u#p292

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