Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alum Sam Salmond (Cycle 20) received the world premiere of his new musical EIGHTY-SIXED at The Diversionary Theatre.
With music and lyrics by Salmond and a book by collaborator Jeremy J. King, the show is set in New York City which used to be a party town, but 1986 finds everyone paralyzed with fear of AIDS. Everyone, that is, except BJ Rosenthal, who’s determined to keep the party going. When an ex-lover becomes ill, BJ is forced to face the nightmare enveloping him and redefine his life. Based on the celebrated novel of its time and set to a soaring pop score pulsating with joy and heart wrenching melodies, Eighty-Sixed unearths an epidemic that shook the world to reveal a community’s ferocious fight to reclaim its future.
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