<div> <b><i>Friday Night Lights </i>meets <i>Glee</i>?the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.</b><br> <br> Why would the multimillionaire producer of <i>Cats</i>, <i>The </i><i>Phantom of the Opera</i>, and <i>Miss Saigon </i>take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of <i>Les Misérables</i>?<br> <br> To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as <i>Rent </i>and <i>Spring</i> <i>Awakening </i>before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders.<br> <br> Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe’s, chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.<br> </div>