Songs for a New World

Written by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Sarah Redmond
Presented by The National Youth Music Theatre

The National Youth Music Theatre is delighted to return to The Bridewell Theatre with Songs for a New World by Tony award-winner, Jason Robert Brown, who has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest, most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim". (Philadelphia Inquirer)

With an emotionally charged score of contemporary pop/rock theatre music, Songs for a New World takes us from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue through 16 unique songs, each telling its own story: how to survive in a new set of circumstances – a new world – even against seemingly overwhelming odds. “It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice or take a stand, or turn around and go back”. These are the stories and characters of today; these are the songs for a new world.