In 1977, Elizabeth Swados spent several months observing and interviewing child runaways before shaping their stories, fears, and fantasies into a musical. A deeply unconventional work, Runaways feels like the funkiest, most heartbreaking mixtape ever to come out of a 1970s boom box, packed with reggae anthems, hip-hop, soul-food lullabies, more...
You Don't Understand
I Had to Go
Parent/Kid Dance
Appendectomy
Where Do People Go
Footstep
Once Upon a Time
Current Events
Every Now and Then
Out on the Street
Minnesota Strip
Song of a Child Prostitute
Christmas Puppies
Lazar's Heroes
Find Me a Hero
Scrynatchkielooaw
The Undiscovered Son
I Went Back Home
This Is What I Do When I'm Angry
The Basketball Song
Spoons
Lullaby for Luis
We Are Not Strangers
In the Sleeping Line
Lullaby from Baby to Baby
Tra Gog Vo In Dein Whole
Revenge Song
Enterprise
Sometimes
Clothes
Mr. Graffiti
The Untrue Pigeon
Señoras de la Noche
We Have to Die
Where Are Those People Who Did 'Hair'?
Appendectomy II
Let Me Be a Kid
To the Dead of Family Wars
Problem After Problem
Lonesome of the Road
You Have No Heart
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