Fundraising Drive Announced to Produce New Musical "In America"

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In America Productions is pleased to announce the debut of a new musical entitled, In America, and the start of an online fundraising drive to bring this important, topical, contemporary work before a live theater audience. Contributions may be made on the Contributions page of the show's website at www.inamericaproductions.com. The musical is about a young teaching graduate from New York City, Mr. Johnson, and his first job as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at an adult school in San Francisco for immigrants who have recently arrived in America. Trouble arises when the local school board threatens to close down the school due to deep budget cuts and rising anti-immigrant sentiment. While the local Thug Boys stir things up, one of Mr. Johnson's students develops a crush on her young teacher who is oblivious to her overtures. 

In America's eighteen musical numbers recall such classic Broadway shows as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific and Miss Saigon. Visitors to In America's website at www.inamericaproductions.com are invited to listen to the show's 18 closed-captioned songs on the Music Player page, watch the music video clips on the News, Comments & Videos page, read the script or show's collection of sheet music on the Script page and Sheet Music page and take a look and listen to the song and lead-ins to the lyrics on the Lead-Ins & Lyrics page. And don't forget to visit the Contributions page and contribute to a debut production of In America in a live public theater.  It will be a great show.  

Thank you very much for your kind support. To learn more about In America, please visit our website at: www.inamericaproductions.com.

About the Playwright

Professor Hal Harper is a retired ESL professor who taught at the local community college in San Francisco, CA for 40 years.  He first began to write In America thirty years ago in 1995 when a school site at which he was then teaching (Roosevelt Jr. High) was closed due to budget cuts, much like the story of In America.  Since then, more songs were added and a new soundtrack was recorded at The Record Shop in Nashville, TN.

SOURCE In America Productions LLC