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‘The Outsiders’ musical is coming to Broadway in Spring 2024

By Tiara Starks

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 06: Manhattan is enveloped in a dense haze caused by wildfires in Canada on June 06, 2023 in New York City. Over 100 wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and Quebec resulting in air quality health alerts for the Adirondacks, Eastern Lake Ontario, Central New York and Western New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 06: Manhattan is enveloped in a dense haze caused by wildfires in Canada on June 06, 2023 in New York City. Over 100 wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and Quebec resulting in air quality health alerts for the Adirondacks, Eastern Lake Ontario, Central New York and Western New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) /
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Get ready to travel back to 1960s Oklahoma when the famed book to movie adaptation, The Outsiders, heads to the Broadway stage in spring 2024. The Outsiders is set in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma, as “Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and their chosen family of “outsiders” are in a fight for survival and a quest for purpose in a world that may never accept them”.

The show’s world premiere was staged at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA on Feb. 19 – Apr. 9, 2023 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. The La Jolla cast was led by Brody Grant as Ponyboy, Sky Lakota-Lynch as Johnny, Daniel Marconi as Randy, Kevin William Paul as Bob, Brent Comer as Paul, Ryan Vasquez as Darrel, Da’Von T. Moody as Dallas, Jason Schmidt as Sodapop, Trevor McGhie as Two-Bit, Piper Patterson as Cherry, and Kiki Lemieux as Marcia. The show received positive reviews, which served as a signal for it to make a proper move to New York City.

The Broadway transfer of The Outsiders is being directed by Danya Taymor (Pass Over) alongside choreographer Rick Kuperman. The show will officially open Apr. 11, 2024 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Casting for the Broadway performance for The Outsiders will be announced at a later date.

According to Deadline, it was also announced that award-winning actress, director and producer Angelina Jolie had joined the musical‘s production team. The show features a book written by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine (Here Lies Love, Moulin Rouge) and music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Levine. Levine is also responsible for the show’s music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations.

If you’re a fan of the SE. Hinton novel and Francis Ford Coppola-directed film, you can visit  outsidersmusical.com to learn more about the upcoming production.

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