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Runaways: Elizabeth Swados
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Runaways is a musical which was written, composed and directed by Elizabeth Swados, about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets. The characters were taken from workshops conducted by Swados with real-life runaways in the late 1970s.
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Runaways, according to press notes, concerns "the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets. The characters were taken from workshops conducted by Swados with real-life runaways in the late 1970's. In this new production . . . the stories of these young people have been updated and ... made more poignant by their relevance to the challenges today’s youth face."
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Swados did research for her project as she gathered the cast, and some in the cast were runaways. The show was done in a series of songs, monologues, scenes, poems, and dances. [1]
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