Goodspeed Musicals has added Bhangin� It to its inaugural Worklight Series this spring. , the revamped musical development initiative will host three musicals and present them to audiences as staged readings.
Bhangin� It, which is already slated to have and , is a new musical set in the high stakes world of intercollegiate competitive Bhangra—throwing the Punjabi tradition into a high-energy dance-off. The show is a collaboration between three recent Kleban Prize winners: composer Sam Willmott and writers Mike Lew (Teenage Dick) and Rehana Lew Mirza (Hatefuck).
Performances will run at Goodspeed August 5�16.
The 2020 Worklight Series will kick off with Johnny & the Devil’s Box, featuring a book, music, and lyrics by Douglas Waterbury-Tieman (May 27–June 7), and will conclude with Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which features a book by Carrie and The Shining novelist Stephen King and music and lyrics by Grammy winner John Mellencamp (October 21–November 8).
