"Emerald Man," an alum of the 2006 New York Musical Theater Festival, is one of four developing tuners selected for the ASCAP Foundation/Disney Workshop in L.A.
Other shows to participate in the workshop are Mark and Bryan Karmelich's "Jesus' Kid Brother," a comedy about Christ's younger sibling, Larry; Roslyn Catracchia and Lisa Matsumoto's "On Dragonfly Wings," based on the true story of a Hawaiian youngster with leukemia; and Randy Rogel and Kirby Ward's "Romancing the Throne," a fractured fairy tale about a plot to assassinate a king.
"Emerald," by Janet Cole Valdez, Marc Bosserman and Tom Valdez, follows a boy who runs away from a difficult family life to have quixotic adventures in LA.
Led by Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked"), the ASCAP/Disney workshop begins this month and runs through February.
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