Conceived and directed by Amon Miyamoto, composed by Tony-winner Henry Krieger (DREAMGIRLS), with book and lyrics by Tony-winner Bill Russell (SIDESHOW), UP IN THE AIR premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February 2008.

Based on one of the most beloved novels of the venerated Japanese author, Mizukami Tsutomu, UP IN THE AIR is a wickedly funny fable about a frog who, believing his friends and family are "stuck in the mud," leaves his local pond to climb the tall tree that shades the pond.

Boonah feels he has found "heaven on earth" on the treetop – until he realizes it is the aerie of a hawk. In the life-and-death adventures that follow, Boonah encounters a variety of similarly unlucky creatures and witnesses the gamut of behavior from cowardice to valor, from selfishness to grace – and he returns to his pond with a new, heartfelt understanding of what a gift it is to be alive.

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Bleecker Street
A new musical by
Michael Wolk.

One night, a girl walks into a bar...

Nate's life is about losing -- his pop star career, and now his bar and, it seems, his wife -- when a girl walks into his bar and wakes him up to the possibilities of life -- and the sudden, very real possibility of death.