Today on U-M Creative Currents, you’ll learn all about how musicals get made. In this episode, we’re spotlighting one of our “Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration” (ARIA) grant projects: Perpetual Sunshine & The Ghost Girls, a new musical theater work that tackles the exploitation of women workers in the early 20th century.

Mark talked with playwright-lyricist, Sara Cooper, whose recent works include the Broadway-bound show Silver Linings Playbook and HoT, and Lynne Shankel, a faculty member with School of Music, Theater and Dance (SMTD) and a fantastic composer, orchestrator, and music supervisor whose Broadway credits include the shows Allegiance and Crybaby. 

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• Learn more about Lynne Shankel
• Learn more about Sara Cooper

saracooper.me

lynneshankel.com

https://www.lynneshankel.com/works/perpetual-sunshine-the-ghost-girls

https://research.umich.edu/arts-research-incubation-acceleration-aria/ 

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