-Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, a new musical filled with traditional and original Gospel and Freedom songs, tells the moving and inspiring true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to walk all the way from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on the Voting Rights March in 1965. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda, and her friends and neighbors, fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to secure the right to vote for African Americans. Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, High Art , Psych), adapted the award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery (Dial Press, 2016) for the stage. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom is directed by Fracaswell Hyman. The Music Director is Joshuah Brian Campbell. Producers are Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Miranda Barry, and Amy Sprecher.
You can hear some of the songs and learn more about the show HERE
Surely this production will come "home" to Selma at some point?
Meanwhile another Civil Rights Selma musical will open in Selma next month:
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