The work features a score by Pump Boys and Dinettes’ Jim Wann and David Shenton, with a book by Emily Loesser and Don Stephenson. Manhattan School of Music will present the world premiere of Paperboy, a new musical with a score by Pump Boys and Dinettes’ Jim Wann and David Shenton and a book by […]
Set in 1950’s Memphis, Paperboy tells the true story of an eleven-year-old boy who stutters and how his life is transformed one summer when he takes over a friend’s paper route. The music for Paperboy is by Jim Wann, a Tony and Drama Desk nominee for his score for Pump Boys and Dinettes, along with […]
Manhattan School of Music’s Musical Theatre Division will present the World Premiere of Paperboy, a new musical based on the award-winning novel by Vince Vawter. The novel, which sold more than a quarter million copies and won the prestigious Newbery Honor Award, is based on Mr. Vawter’s real-life experience growing up in the 1950s as […]
Manhattan School of Music, one of the world’s foremost independent music conservatories and one of just two such institutions in the U.S. offering a Musical Theatre degree, this month presents a mainstage production of the Kander & Ebb classic, Cabaret. But this timeless classic will be served with a twist. “This is a unique version […]
