TAMPA — As part of the Bank of America Broadway at Straz Center series, “The Outsiders” will be presented Dec. 27-Jan. 4, in Morsani Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.
Tickets start at $71.80. Visit strazcenter.org.
The winner of four 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, “The Outsiders” is adapted from S.E. Hinton’s seminal novel and Frances Ford Coppola’s iconic film. This thrilling new musical features a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, and music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine. Music supervision, orchestration and arrangements are by Justin Levine, with choreography by Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman and direction by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor.
Entertainment Weekly says: “It has the power to inspire an entire generation.”
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders” battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. The Outsiders navigates the complexities of self-discovery as the Greasers dream about who they want to become in a world that may never accept them. With a dynamic original score, “The Outsiders” is a story of friendship, family, belonging … and the realization that there is still “lots of good in the world.”