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<b><i>Friday Night Lights </i>meets <i>Glee</i>—the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.</b><br /><br />Why would the multimillionaire producer of <i>Cats</i>, <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i>, and <i>Miss Saigon </i>take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of <i>Les Misérables</i>?<br /><br />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 such as <i>Rent </i>and <i>Spring</i> <i>Awakening </i>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.<br /><br />Michael Sokolove, a Lev