HISTORIC PLAYS
Where History Meets Inspiration and Story
The Rise of the Revolution
The Rise of the Revolution is a powerful prelude to The Young Lords - The Musical, revealing the inspiration, purpose, and creative journey behind its creation.
By exploring the author's motivation and process, the book brings to life the story of the Young Lords and their influential role in the Latin grassroots civil rights movement. Timely and thought-provoking, it shows how their legacy continues to resonate in today's conversations about justice, identity, and social change.
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THE YOUNG LORDS - THE MUSICAL
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THE YOUNG LORDS - THE MUSICAL
2025 Highlights
Staged Reading of The Young Lords - The Musical
Staged reading of The Young Lords - The Musical
Friday, May 16, 2025
11AM & 3PM
The Producers Club
358 W 44th St (Between 8th & 9th Ave), NYC
Director: Alex Sanchez
Stage Manageer: Eileen Bernstein
Casting Director: Elle Jones
Music Director: Robert Barrett Smith
Project Support Assistant: Diana Rosario
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About The Young Lords - The Musical
RADICALISM- REVOLUTION-RESISTANCE
The Young Lords – The Musical is a two-act stage play that examines radical social change, community advocacy, and the difficult internal debates faced by its members.
ACT ONE follows Jimenez in Chicago, where he discovers the influential writings of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. during his incarceration, and traces the founding of the Young Lords, made up primarily of Puerto Rican and Latinx members. Demands for community initiatives such as education, housing, and healthcare.
ACT TWO opens with the Young Lords Party in New York City at Tompkins Square Park, where party leader Felipe Luciano and other key members face a series of struggles and confrontations. Protecting children exposed to lead paint poisoning, defending pregnant mothers denied general access to emergency treatment and public health care services, and a bureaucratic system where health inequity runs rampant. The musical reaches its dramatic climax with the 1970 takeover and occupation of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx.
The musical features 22 original, rich, and diverse musical genres having massive crossover appeal and follows a historical sequence of events. It adds a new dimension to the mainstream perception of that time, that these young radicals were destructive, and how their actions are so highly relevant today.