ACT Announces Pick for Top Broadway Show of 2008

Broadway is no stranger to talented child and teen actors.  Musical theatre has long celebrated youthful actors (think The Music Man, Annie, or Oliver!). But 2008 found teen actors getting well deserved attention on the Great White Way and making history.

The shows significance for the ACT acting students, and teen actors everywhere, is the quality of the performance and the appeal across all age groups. The coming of age story follows Evan Goldman, a New York City teen who has it all—until his parents get divorced. Forced to move to Indiana with his mother, Evan has to make new friends and somehow maneuver his was through the minefield of high school in order to become part of the “in” crowd. Directed by Jeremy Sams, it is the first Broadway show to star an all teenage cast and band.

While the new musical will play its final performance on January 4, 2009 after 22 preview and 105 regular performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, it's success and significance for young acting students marks a turning point for talented teens. Teens have shown the world just what can happen when you guide them, train them, and then pair them with an explosive rock score by celebrated composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years) and tell a grown-up story about growing up.