Broadway musical “13” has tween market to itself By Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter, Tue Oct 7, 2008 6:18am EDT NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Broadway has plenty of shows for adults and several (nearly all of them courtesy of Disney) for young kids. But until now the tween market has largely been neglected, despite theRead More »

Musical Mazel Tov For Heartland Teens By BARBARA HOFFMAN New York Post, October 6, 2008 RATING: 3 out of 4 stars I can’t remember the last Broadway musical with a big Torah number. Then again, I can’t re member a leading man six years shy of legal drinking age. All that (and more) adds upRead More »

Stranger in Strange Land: The Acne Years By BEN BRANTLEY New York Times, October 6, 2008 Youth isn’t only for the young, at least not as a marketable commodity in popular entertainment. On Broadway as in Hollywood, there will always be generation-crossing shows displaying fresh-fleshed things in hormonally induced states of agony and ecstasy. ThinkRead More »

Is ’13’ The Next ‘High School Musical’? New musical, with songs by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, is a more dysfunctional, realistic take on growing up. By Jim Cantiello, with additional reporting by Garth Bardsley MTV News, October 6, 2008 The senior class of East High from “High School Musical” might have to watchRead More »

Charming teen stars far outnumber inventive scenes in ’13’ By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY October 6. 2008 NEW YORK — With the High School Musical franchise raking in the dough for Disney and shows such as Spring Awakening and Legally Blonde luring younger fans to Broadway, it was only a matter of time before producersRead More »