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Paradise Square is a stage musical, with music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Masi Asare and Nathan Tysen, and a book by Christina Anderson, Larry Kirwan and Craig Lucas.Set in New York City during the Civil War and the New York City draft riots, the musical follows conflict between Irish Americans and Black Americans.
Masi Asare. Masi Asare is an American lyricist, composer, playwright, and academic. She co-wrote the lyrics to the Broadway musical Paradise Square with Nathan Tysen. For this she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 75th Tony Awards in 2022. [1][2] She is also the lyricist for the Off-Broadway musical Monsoon Wedding ...
The body can sometimes say more than words, but even the most expressive moves cannot make a coherent case for “Paradise Square.” The blunt and belabored history lesson of a new musical set in ...
“Paradise Square,” an ambitious new musical heading to Broadway in March, is a fictionalized historical take on the Five Points area of Manhattan and the social forces leading up to the ...
Larry Kirwan. Background information. Born. 1954 (age 69–70) [1] Wexford, Ireland. Instrument. Vocals. Larry Kirwan (born 1948 in Wexford) is an expatriate Irish writer and musician, most noted as the lead singer for the rock band, Black 47, and conceiver/co-writer of Paradise Square, the Broadway Musical for which he received a Tony Award ...
“A Strange Loop” was followed closely behind by “MJ,” a jukebox musical featuring the music of Michael Jackson, and “Paradise Square,” a look at the Five Points area of Manhattan and ...
Kevin BerneThe beginning of the Broadway musical Paradise Square, which opens Sunday night at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (tickets on sale through Nov. 23) shows us the modern-day intersection of ...
"Hip to Be Square" is a song by Huey Lewis and the News, written by Bill Gibson, Sean Hopper, and Huey Lewis, and released in 1986 as the second single from the multi-platinum album Fore!. The song features San Francisco 49ers players Joe Montana , Ronnie Lott , Dwight Clark , and Riki Ellison singing backup vocals. [ 1 ]