The Outsiders
Greaser's the word for the young Tulsa toughs in this musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton's seminal 1967 young-adult novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 film version of it. Music supervisor Justin Levine (Moulin Rouge!) also cowrote the script with Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter) and the score with the folk duo Jamestown Revival. Like Coppola's movie—which launched the careers of C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon and Emilio Estevez—the stage production, directed by Danya Taymor (Pass Over), features a cast of unfamous actors, mostly in their Broadway debuts.