Buddy Drew-The Musical, based on the real life story of Drew Brown III, is a coming-of-age tale about a black kid from Harlem raised by his white, Jewish grandparents in Brighton Beach right smack dab in the middle of the prize fight known as the Civil Rights Movement. His black father, Bundini Brown, a street hustler from Harlem and also the corner man for the heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali, married Rhoda Palestine, a Jewish girl from Brooklyn who reveled in the sights and sounds of the Harlem nightlife that Bundini reigned over.

Growing up with a life as shaky as a yarmulke on an Afro, Buddy Drew must contend with an absentee father who spent the better part of his life fostering the career, affection and respect of his “other” son, Muhammad Ali. Buddy Drew finds himself sparing with the world’s greatest boxer for the love of Bundini. Like many father/son relationships, Buddy Drew searches for his own identity and when is finally able to forgive, though he can never forget, fulfills his destiny prophesied at his own Bar Mitzvah speech and himself becomes a Real Drew. And today he is a man.

Galactic Cigarettes Presents: It’s Your World is a new musical set in New York City in the 1950′s. The title refers to a television quiz show that has captured the imagination of the public by providing everyday, regular folks (“Just like you and me”) with the possibility of winning the unheard-of top prize of $100,000!

Sponsored by America’s favorite cigarette company Galactic Cigarettes (“For a galaxy of pleasure, smoke Galactic Cigarettes”), the quiz show’s newest contestants are a young married schoolteacher recently returned from fighting in Korea and a single, rather shy gal from a Manhattan typing pool. The musical chronicles their initial delight with the show and the fame bestowed upon them until they find out all
is not as it seems to be.

While comically and delightfully satirizing America in the 50′s with lavish production numbers, scores of catchy and tuneful songs, spoofs of commercial jingles, the golden age of live TV and cold war jitters, Galactic Cigarettes Presents It’s Your World also poses a Faustian moral dilemma: What will happen when decent, hardworking, honest people hope to win the American Dream, but have to participate in a fraud?