Mr. Holland's Opus 2017

Opened: 2017
Closing: December 31, 2017

Mr. Holland's Opus - 2017 - San Diego, CA (Regional) History , Info & More

Don Powell Theatre
5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182

SDSU Musical Theatre students will have the opportunity of a lifetime to be on the ground floor as a new musical by award-winning Broadway, film and television actor BD Wong and Broadway veteran Wayne Barker is born.

Working with Wong (lyrics and libretto), Barker (composer), and head of the MFA Musical Theatre Program Robert Meffe, the students will 'workshop,' and then bring to life, a brand new film-to-musical adaptation of Mr. Holland's Opus, a 1995 Hollywood Pictures film.

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