In the age of musical adaptations, it’s understandable to be skeptical about one of the most enduring young adult properties coming to the stage. However, The Outsiders feels completely original, and re-invents itself for Broadway. The result is an innovative and marvelous telling of a classic story with brilliant staging, an energetic cast, and the best music of the season. The Outsiders is a book many of us read in school as teenagers. It tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old boy in 1967 Tulsa, Oklahoma who finds community after the death of his parents in a gang called the Greasers.…
