The Boys Are Coming Home

The Boys Are Coming Home

The Boys Are Coming Home was the second new musical to emerge from AMTP at Northwestern University. Written in 2005 and based on Shakespeare’s comedy "Much Ado About Nothing", this musical is set in the year 1945, when American servicemen returned home from World War II. With music and lyrics by Leslie Arden and book by Berni Stapleton, "The Boys Are Coming Home" is a captivating journey through the joys and challenges of post-war life. "The Boys Are Coming Home" was directed by Gary Griffin (assisted by Jason Tyne).

The Boys Are Coming Home was chosen for inclusion in the National Alliance for Music Theatre Festival of New Works in New York City and was renamed "One Step Forward" .

It is currently listed on the Goodman Theatre's 2007-8 season with a new book by Rebecca Gilman and will be directed by David Petrarca. [ [http://www.goodmantheatre.org/Season/production.aspx?prod=68 Tickets & Season : Production : The Boys are Coming Home] ] This will be the second Arden/Petrarca team-up with their first being Goodman's production of The House of Martin Guerre back in 1996 [ [http://www.thetheatreaddict.com/?cat=9 the THEATRE addict » Leslie Arden ] ] .

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* [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99899.html Article at Playbill]
* [http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=websites&id=4417632 Article at ABC]
* [http://www.goodmantheatre.org/Season/production.aspx?prod=68 Article at the Goodman Theatre website]


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