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THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

by ELIYA SMITH SASHA YAKUB

THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER, LOEB MAINSTAGE  | Cambridge, MA | 2019

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES is an original disco musical for children, developed in collaboration with the Tony Award-winning American Repertory Theater and performed in rep with Inua Ellams' critically-acclaimed Barber Shop Chronicles. Combining disco, R&B, hip hop, and latin musical traditions with an urgent political allegory, this radical new approach to children's theater pulls the American tradition of holiday children's pantomime into a contemporary context.

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