Brooklyn
Shows · Brooklyn
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
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2004 | Plymouth Theatre Original. October 21, 2004 · Jeff Calhoun | 284 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing not confirmed
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7 passages naming Brooklyn, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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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