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Hall County natives stage their musical off Broadway in New York
Two men pen and score production featuring Jimmy Carter and gospel-singing aliens
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Cast members of “Jimmy! A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis” rehearse a number in New York. Hall County natives Isaac Hopkins and Noah Haines penned and scored the musical. The duo staged the production in August 2013 with the Northeast Georgia Stage Actors Guild. It went on to win a National Theatre for Student Artists contest, earning it a spot to be performed off Broadway in New York. The musical opens Friday at the Irondale Center in the Brooklyn Arts District.
Hall County natives Isaac Hopkins and Noah Haines wonder what gospel-singing aliens must sound like on an almost daily basis lately. Then again, so would Jimmy Carter if the former president had actually encountered an out-of-this-world species in 1969. But a fictional Jimmy Carter actually encounters singing creature in Hopkins and Haines’ play “Jimmy!