Drama High
Author: Sokolove, Michael
ISBN: 9781594632808
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 07 Oct 2014
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
In the tradition of I>Friday Night Lights/I>, the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.BR>BR>b>The inspiration for the NBC TV series "i>Rise/i>," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez - the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of i>The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino./i>/b>br>br> Why would the multimillionaire producer ofi>Cats/i>,i>The Phantom of the Opera/i>, andi>Miss Saigon/i>take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production ofi>Les Miserables/i>?br>br> To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as i>Rent/i>andi>Spring/i>i>Awakening/i>before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe's students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders.br>br> Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe's, chronicles the drama director's last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.
ISBN: 9781594632808
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 07 Oct 2014
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
In the tradition of I>Friday Night Lights/I>, the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.BR>BR>b>The inspiration for the NBC TV series "i>Rise/i>," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez - the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of i>The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino./i>/b>br>br> Why would the multimillionaire producer ofi>Cats/i>,i>The Phantom of the Opera/i>, andi>Miss Saigon/i>take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production ofi>Les Miserables/i>?br>br> To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as i>Rent/i>andi>Spring/i>i>Awakening/i>before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe's students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders.br>br> Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe's, chronicles the drama director's last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.
