He can pretend to be like the cool kids he's sure he can.īut if you spend all your time pretending to be someone else, who do you become? Evan doesn't want to be laughed at for being different. Because this is his chance to get in with the popular kids-the cool football players and pretty cheerleaders.īut it's the weird kids who welcome him, like his nerdy neighbor Patrice and Archie, whose crutches and muscular dystrophy make him an easy target for bullying. But wondering what it means to become a man is the least of Evan's problems.Īfter being uprooted right before his thirteen birthday from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, he's more focused on using this fresh start to find the right friends to invite to his bar mitzvah. Soon to be a movie-musical streaming on Netflix!Įvan didn't expect relevant life advice from Rabbi Weiner, who looks so old that he must have gone to yeshiva with Moses. The paperback edition of the novel based on the groundbreaking musical by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish, 13, a story about friendship, fitting in, and what it means to turn thirteen. 2021 is looking better already! the Book Almost thirteen-year-old Evan Goldman learns what it means to be a man when his parents separate and he and his mother move from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, right before his bar mitzvah. A West End production by the National Youth Music Theatre, ran at the Apollo Theatre in 2012, directed by Brown.Ĭasting now resumed for the movie musical based on the #Broadway show #13. The show is notable for having launched the careers of several future stage and screen talents: pop star Ariana Grande, Elizabeth Gilles ( Dynasty), and Graham Phillips ( Riverdale), among them. A release date is to be revealed, but we'd say the back end of 2021 or early 2022 is most likely,īrown's show New York teenager Evan Goldman as he's forced to move with his mom to Indiana. It will be directed by Tamra Davis, responsible for Crossroads and three episodes of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. With music and lyrics by Brown and a script by Robert Horn ( Tootsie), the film will begin rehearsals next March in Toronto ahead of a summer shoot. Actors with a singing voice and muscular dystrophy are actively encouraged to apply for the piece.

New plans have been revealed for the forthcoming Netflix adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's Broadway musical 13.Īccording to a casting call sent out yesterday, the production is on the look-out for cast members to join, aged from 12 to 16 (with a playing age of 13) as well as someone to take on the role of Archie, a male-identifying teenager with muscular dystrophy.

13 by jason robert brown