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’13’ Won’t Reach Maturity On Broadway Compiled by Dave Itzkoff New York Times, 11/21/08 It’s proving an especially difficult season to be a teenager on Broadway. Producers have announced a closing date for the musical “13,” the other Broadway show about the struggles of adolescence (this one set in present-day Indiana rather than 19th-century Germany,…

The Jewish Exponent, 10/8/08 Lucky ’13’ Teens teem on stage with a Bar Mitzvah in the balance Michael Elkin, Arts & Entertainment Editor The Jewish Exponent, October 8, 2008 Becoming “13”: Today you are a … musical? Bimah him up: Evan Goldman is having a meltdown that would drown a dripping ice-swan sculpture and curdle…

Broadway musical “13” has tween market to itself By Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter, Tue Oct 7, 2008 6:18am EDT NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Broadway has plenty of shows for adults and several (nearly all of them courtesy of Disney) for young kids. But until now the tween market has largely been neglected, despite the…

Musical Mazel Tov For Heartland Teens By BARBARA HOFFMAN New York Post, October 6, 2008 RATING: 3 out of 4 stars I can’t remember the last Broadway musical with a big Torah number. Then again, I can’t re member a leading man six years shy of legal drinking age. All that (and more) adds up…

Stranger in Strange Land: The Acne Years By BEN BRANTLEY New York Times, October 6, 2008 Youth isn’t only for the young, at least not as a marketable commodity in popular entertainment. On Broadway as in Hollywood, there will always be generation-crossing shows displaying fresh-fleshed things in hormonally induced states of agony and ecstasy. Think…