13 Runs December 8-18 at ACT

13 is a grown-up story about growing up. It opened on Broadway in 2008 featuring the only all-teenage cast to ever be on Broadway. Next month, in partnership with ACT – A Contemporary Theatre, Broadway Bound will produce the Northwest professional premiere of the musical. The Broadway Bound cast, like the Broadway Company, will be comprised of all teens. In recognition of this production, MR. Brown will be coming to Seattle to attend the preview and opening night performances and work with the cast of 13. He will also conduct a talk back with the audience following the December 9 performance.

Originally mounted in June 2011, Broadway Bound's production of 13 was a high mark for the organization after 15 years of shows. Because of the overwhelmingly positive reaction to that production, the cast and creative team has reassembled for a very special 10-day return engagement, which will mark Broadway's Bound first venture into Seattle's professional theatre scene.

13's Evan Goldman has it all - he's popular, has the perfect family and lives in the greatest city in the world - New York. That is until his parents get divorced and he's forced to move with his Mom… to Indiana. Uprooted from his old life, he has to make new friends and somehow maneuver his way through the minefield of junior high school to become part of the ?in-crowd in time for the celebration of his bar mitzvah. With an unforgettable rock score from composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.

13 earned the L.A. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Production and Best Musical Score for its world premiere production at Center Theatre Group/The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2007. This production features a cast of 25 local teenage performers from communities including Queen Anne, Magnolia, Greenlake, Capitol Hill, West Seattle and Mount Baker. The professional team behind the production of 13 includes Jimmy Nixon, Director; Sonia Dawkins, Choreographer; Barbara Lynne Jamison, Musical Director; Norm Spencer and Martin Christoffel, Co-Scenic Designers; Deborah Hartwell, Costume Designer; Robert Aguilar, Lighting Designer; and Tony Hoffman, Sound Designer.

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