A manga musical hits (off-) Broadway
by editors@theworld.org (Jeff Lunden) from The World: Latest Stories on (#7928B)
A new musical - with a score by Duncan Sheik and a book by Leah Nanako Winkler, based on a Japanese graphic novel - is opening off-Broadway this week. It's the first Japanese manga to be developed into an American musical, about a woman who feels trapped within her life. Sheik, a Tony Winner for his score to Spring Awakening, died before the dress rehearsals were done. Jeff Lunden reports from New York.