Show History
History
Show History
Inspiration
In addition to being inspired by contributors to the Poets in Public Service, Inc., Bring In The Morning followed the 1970's smash musical The Me Nobody Knows, which took a similarly-written look at the urban problems facing America then.
Productions
Bring In The Morning is a musical based on and inspired by the contributors to Poets in Public Services, Inc. and other material with adaptation and lyrics by Herb Schapiro and music by Gary William Friedman. It chronicles the lives of a multi-racial ensemble of adolescents and near-adolescents from age 13 to their early 20s, and their joys and desires as well as the pressures, burdens and all-too-early lessons in heartache.
Initially Bring In The Morning was given a reading in New York City as part of the Musical Theatre Network's Broadway Dozen series in early 1994. Then, impressed by what they saw, producers picked it up for an April opening at the Off-Broadway, Variety Arts Theatre in Manhattan's East Village. It ran from April 29, 1994, to June 5, 1995.
In November 1994, a somewhat revised Bring In The Morning played the historic Apollo Theatre in Harlem for a limited engagement.
Trivia
- Bring In The Morning attracted many school groups during it's run Off-Broadway. Students were bussed in to see the show on field trips and special evening events with educators finding the musical s kind of self-expression and subject matter to be a positive role model.
- The show was originally titled Me Too.