BOOMERS Sets Sights on Broadway for 2012 Season

According to a press statement today, Boomers: Promises Made, Not Kept, an original musical, has sights set on Broadway for the 2012 season. 

Boomers: Promises made, Not Kept follows the life of Baby Boomer Will over three decades, from high school football to rock and roll experimentation to eventually Wallstreet aspirations and a failing marriage. This journey through the years reflects upon the moral and social climate that after following WWII dramatically shaped and changed the world forever, and those values rethought and questioned as the last generation of "united War Heroes" struggled to raise their sons and daughters with a dying foresight into the impotance of altruism in an emerging liberalistic and later capitalistic existence.

Artistically speaking, Boomers: Promises made, Not Kept is an album of glamour shots and autopsy photos of a Baby Boomer's journey over the Seas of Living, and Across the Generational Divide, in an extraordinary quest for the Great American Dream.

Peter began writing Boomers: Promises made, Not Kept over a decade ago, and it has been in production development since 2002.

The show has a book, music and lyrics by Peter Baron, and features orchestrations by Mark Sensinger. Sensinger has provided arrangements for the New Hampshire Theater Awards, Northeast Symphony Orchestra, and the shows Network Effect and The E.N.T.J. We Were for Harvard Business School. His CD, In Search of the Perfect Parking Space, has sold as far away as Japan and is available on cdbaby.com. Mark plays tenor sax for the band Main Attraction. Mark Schoenfeld serves as the musical's artistic advisor.

Baron, a former rock guitarist and singer, says of Boomers: "I was a rocker, but I always had this desire to be a creator of musical theatre. To finally do it is a dream come true." 

Noteworthy Boomers cast alumni include: Christopher deProphetis (Miss Saigon National Tour, Rent, Naked Boys Singing); Matt David (The Drowsy Chaperone National Tour, Annie (National Tour), Oliver (National Tour); and Marlyn Sanchez (West Side Story National Tour), Guys and Dolls National Tour).  

Boomers: Promises Made, Not Kept, first premiered 2002 as a staged reading in New Hampshire for emerging playwrights. Since it's premiere it's had 12 productions in its seven years of development including in the American Stage Festival, Actorsingers Theatre, Fox Theater, and in 2008 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. In January 2010 Boomers received a private development lab in the Catskills, including the input from 40 theatre professionals. This private lab is being provided by producers Ted Mozino, Richard Baron (no relation to Peter Baron) and Massimine/Roytman/Presentations and will last until the end of February.

For more information visit www.boomersmusical.com.