About Street Lights The Musical

Music & Lyrics by Joe Drymala
Book by Joe Drymala
Directed by Ryan J. Davis

STREET LIGHTS
is an official selection of the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival October 13-18 at the American Theatre of Actors (Chernuchin)

STREET LIGHTS is a new musical about a group of inner city teenagers who fight to save their high school music program from being shut down; in the process, they discover the power of music to unite their community and bring new hope to the residents of their troubled housing projects. The talented singer and songwriter Monique, her academically gifted brother Rocky and their beat-making DJ friend X-Ray all use organizing techniques pioneered during the civil rights movement to help rally the people around them to protect the neighborhood music that has helped sustain the community through thick and thin.

When Monique begins to fall in love with Damon, a local drug dealer with a Robin Hood streak, she must choose between accepting the hard realities of the world she lives in or trying to change her neighborhood for the better. STREET LIGHTS uses modern hip hop, R&B and pop to tell a timeless story in the musical language of today's youth, while creating a bridge to earlier generations by incorporating samples of old civil rights anthems within the modern songs and beats.


	Music & Lyrics by Joe Drymala Book by Joe Drymala Directed by Ryan J. Davis STREET LIGHTS is an official selection of the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival October 13-18 at the American Theatre of Actors (Chernuchin) STREET LIGHTS is a new musical about a group of inner city teenagers who fight to save their high school music program from being shut down; in the process, they discover the power of music to unite their community and bring new hope to the residents of their troubled housing projects. The talented singer and songwriter Monique, her academically gifted brother Rocky and their beat-making DJ friend X-Ray all use organizing techniques pioneered during the civil rights movement to help rally the people around them to protect the neighborhood music that has helped sustain the community through thick and thin. When Monique begins to fall in love with Damon, a local drug dealer with a Robin Hood streak, she must choose between accepting the hard realities of the world she lives in or trying to change her neighborhood for the better. STREET LIGHTS uses modern hip hop, R&B and pop to tell a timeless story in the musical language of today's youth, while creating a bridge to earlier generations by incorporating samples of old civil rights anthems within the modern songs and beats.


Street Lights is a new hip-hop musical by Joe Drymala, and will be performed as a part of the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival. ©2009