Shows · Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
Opened 2015
116 performances
Musical, Contemporary
Young John Newton, the dissolute son of an English sea captain, is drawn into the brutal world of the slave trade. After a transformative near-death experience during a violent storm at sea, Newton undergoes a profound spiritual awakening that leads him to renounce slavery and write the immortal hymn 'Amazing Grace,' becoming a key figure in the British abolitionist movement.
- Music
- Christopher Smith
- Lyrics
- Christopher Smith & Arthur Giron
- Book
- Christopher Smith & Arthur Giron
Productions1 on Broadway
Amazing Grace is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Smith and Arthur Giron. The musical is Smith's first foray as a professional writer or composer. It is based loosely on the life of John Newton, an English slave trader who later became an Anglican priest and eventually an abolitionist. He wrote many hymns, including "Amazing Grace". The musical had a 2012 production by Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut and a pre-Broadway run in Chicago in 2014. It opened on Broadway on July 16, 2015, and closed on October 25, 2015.
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