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Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Contributor(s): Sokolove, Michael (Author)
ISBN: 1594632804     ISBN-13: 9781594632808
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Educators
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Performing Arts | Theater - Direction & Production
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 1020
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania
 
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Publisher Description:
The inspiration for the NBC TV series Rise, 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 The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino.

Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Mis rables?

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 Rent and Spring Awakening 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.

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.