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Friday Night Lights meets Glee—the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.
Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows like Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders. Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe’s, chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.
- Sales Rank: #553853 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-26
- Released on: 2013-09-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Journalist Sokolove pays tribute to drama teacher Lou Volpe, who in the last 40 years has revolutionized the theater program at Harry S. Truman High School. Located in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar town that has been on a slow economic downswing since the 1960s, Truman has become known for its drama program, thanks to Volpe, whose productions draw not only critical acclaim but also the attention of famous theater producers. A dedicated teacher who inspires loyalty in students past and present, Volpe often stages productions that are controversial but that he firmly believes his kids will relate to. During the season Sokolove spends at Truman, Volpe and his kids put on the play Good Boys and True and the musical Spring Awakenings—both of which address teen sexuality, angst, and reckless behavior. Volpe pushes his student actors hard, but for most of them, being in one of his productions is transformative. Many alums go on to pursue careers in theater or the arts. A powerful look at the way a dynamic and dedicated teacher can change lives. --Kristine Huntley
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Praise for Drama High
"A good reporter can make almost any story interesting. A great reporter makes it blossom. With the kind of diligent, thorough and imaginative reporting not seen enough these days, Sokolove not only brings a teacher, his students and their community to life, he also opens the story to larger matters."—The Washington Post
"Poignant...Captivating...[Sokolove] shines a heartening light on how one of those passionate heros devoted himself...to educating, rather than training, young people."—The New York Times Book Review
“Imagine if all of Glee sustained the level of quality and heart that characterized the story lines between Kurt and his dad, and you'll get a closer approximation of what Drama High achieves…It immediately becomes required reading: for young people who can learn more about the challenge and rewards of theatre, for parents who may well need the same background, for anyone who doubts the value of theatre as an educational and character-building activity not only for those who would become professionals, for those who want to spark reveries of their own experiences in high school drama.”—The Huffington Post
"An extraordinary book…a viscerally real reminder of the pain and excitement of being a teenager, an honest and compassionate discussion of class in America, a wondrous, lightning-in-a-bottle book."—Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep
"Part Glee, part Hoop Dreams, Drama High is a bravura performance, the true story of that teacher we all remember or wish we did, the one who pushes us to be better than we thought possible. You'll clap and cry at the end. Sokolove deserves a standing ovation."—Elizabeth Weil, author of No Cheating, No Dying
"What makes a great teacher—the kind who truly transforms lives? The answer lies between these covers, in Michael Sokolove's intimate portrait. This book ripples with emotion, with humor, with heart. Like a great performance, Drama High won't just move you. It will inspire you."—Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx Is Burning
Praise for Michael Sokolove
“Sokolove is a natural literary stylist with the gifts of a social historian.”—The New York Times
“A terrific read, made to work by Sokolove’s insightful reporting and deft writing . . . a sad, powerful, thoughtful, totally engrossing work.”—Chicago Tribune
“A narrative defined by its compassionate, clear-eyed tone.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A first-class work of sound reporting.”—Roger Angell, The New Yorker
About the Author
Michael Sokolove is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, as well as the author of three previous books, The Ticket Out, Hustle, and Warrior Girls. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Lets start raising the stakes and treating teens like young adults
By Amazon Customer
This book is a MUST READ for ANYONE who is a current teacher or considering going into education. I'm a theatre arts educator and found Lou Volpe's story extremely inspiring---we need to push the envelope sometimes and the biggest problem with public schools is that everyone is too afraid of controversy. Lets start raising the stakes and treating teens like young adults.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderfully heart-warming!
By P. B. Sharp
As the book opens, Cameron Mackintosh, a billionaire Broadway producer with famous musicals and plays under his belt- Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon - drives in his stretch limo from Manhattan to watch a high school performance of Les Miserables given by the theater department of the Harry S. Truman School in the suppressed and struggling town of Levittown, Pennsylvania. Why would a distinguished producer be bothered? Why indeed! The Truman drama department under the directorship of Lou Volpe had become a sort of miracle- some of the best high school theater in America had been lovingly choreographed in the otherwise undistinguished school. Lou Volpe had put Truman High School on the map.
Levittown, the epitome of a blue collar town where individuality seems to be suppressed, houses all the same, 17,311of them litter the landscape. People far from academia may say DART-mouth not myth and very likely pronounce the "h" in Amherst. In this town at Harry S. Truman High School, a somewhat run down edifice itself, is a knight in shining armor. Lou Volpe, the teacher of drama at the school, knows that theater can cause the imagination to soar and escape Levittown. His students go on to become news anchors, producers, entertainment executives and founders of theater in their own communities. Like all great teachers, Volpe is an inspiration to his students as well as a catalyst.
Author Sokolove, a Levittown native, is a former student of Volpe's and he will chronicle Volpe's last school years before he retired with dramas both on and off the stage. The struggles of the students are riveting and we follow several of them as they deal with every conceivable obstacle on the rocky road to growing up. Amazingly some of Volpe's best actors are athletes who turned their backs on macho physical feats for the stage. They may get flack from their own fathers accusing them of being gay, sissies, no longer macho but effeminate. But the theater lights and Volpe himself beckon them like sirens and the football field no longer beckons them at all.
Volpe teaches his students to grow with the part, to fuse life into their character, in fact to take their character over and call the shots. That kids as young as ninth graders understand what is required of them is in itself extraordinary, but they have a master draftsman wringing emotions out of them. "There is a difference between people who strive and people who merely work hard."
Volpe wants his students to believe in themselves. The plays and musicals he selects are anything but Disneyland. The themes are adult, often sordid and yet these kids- these KIDS- rise to the occasion of being superb actors, often playing parts of characters thirty years older than themselves. Many teachers may possibly dislike working with teens and the inevitable teen angst, the smart alecky behavior. But Lou says, "They are the reason I come in every day. I love working with them. They make me happy and frustrated and all the other emotions you can imagine."
There is much discussion in the book about homosexuality which you can imagine is a hot and controversial topic in a teen environment. Lou Volpe is gay, but Volpe wears his gayness comfortably, like an old glove. In or out of the closet, Volpe helps his gay students to be comfortable about themselves, free of guilt. Lou says he has good "gaydar" instinctively knowing who is gay even if that person hasn't come out. He emphasizes that "they may have a sad life" if they don't come to grips with their homosexuality.
To make your heart glad, read "Drama High."
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
BETTER THAN GOOD, BY FAR
By Wooley in PSL
Respected writer and author, Michael Sokolove offers us his latest work, DRAMA HIGH, The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theatre. So this is the story about Lou Volpe, Levittown, Pennsylvania, and the drama department of Harry S Truman High School. This book about theater at a high school moved me so much, and reminded me of a five star book, MUCK CITY by Bryan Mealer about football in Belle Glade, Florida.
But this book centers on the man who made the program, Lou Volpe. Volpe a teacher's teacher, dedicated to the art of theater, a man who makes students believe. Then there is Harry S Truman High, a public school, the only high school in the township producing shatterly great drama and musicals. Then Levittown, think Allentown, or Youngstown from Bruce Springsteen mentioned in the book, Levitttown was blue collar now possibly lower. This is a real and wonderful story.
There are great stories within the book, like Cameron MacIntosh coming to Levittown ti watch the pilot of LES MIZ performed by Volpe's charges and again being the first to do RENT. Award after award, this small high school competed with the best in the nation. Read this book. Get inspired and maybe teary-eyed. Oh so HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Side note: I am a teacher, please read this book, and get a glimpse at teaching for the love of it NOT to the tests that are demanded by governments. Volpes are out there. Let them teach.
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