rocketboysLegacy Theatre in Tyrone presents the Atlanta premiere of Rocket Boys, a new musical based on the best-selling New York Times memoir by NASA engineer Homer Hickam Jr., also the basis for the 1999 feature film October Sky, featuring a much younger Jake Gyllenhaal as Hickam. Rocket Boys is a coming-of-age story about a coal miner’s son at the dawn of the 1960s. Homer, inspired by the first Sputnik launch, takes up rocketry in a story about a mother’s love, a father’s fears and a group of young men who made their dreams come true.

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About Kathy Janich

Kathy Janich is a longtime arts journalist who has been seeing, working in or writing about the performing arts for most of her life. She's a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Americans for the Arts and the National Arts Marketing Project. Full disclosure: She’s also an artistic associate at Synchronicity Theatre.

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