FREEDOM SUMMER Comes to NYMF

Freedom Summer is a new musical about the events surrounding the summer of 1964 in Meridian, Mississippi. The show follows the crusade for equality through racism, corruption and violence.

Performers include Briana Carlson-Goodman (Les Miserables, Hair, Doctor Zhivago), BreAnna Collier, Jason Goldston (Becoming Nancy), Tyler Grigsby, Devin J. Hall (RENT), David Gabriel Lerner (Mary Poppins), Veronica Otim, Blake Price (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder), Talia Suskauer (Be More Chill), Nyla Watson (The Color Purple, Wicked), and Darryl Winslow (Avenue Q).

In the summer of 1964, civil rights workers from New York City join forces with grassroots activists in Meridian, Mississippi. Freedom Summer follows their crusade for equality as they navigate racism, corruption, and violence in the Jim Crow south. As the quest for progress begins to take its toll on the group, they're forced to reckon with what it means to be an activist and the price one pays to rewrite history. Written by Charlie H. Ray (book, music and lyrics), Sam Columbus (music), Stage Managed by Byron F. Abens, and directed by Dana Iannuzzi.

The presentations on July 8th (7:00pm) & 11th (10:30am, 1:30pm) as part of the 2019 NYMF Reading Series.

For info contact: freedomsummermusical@gmail.com