Off-Center, an annual summer program at New York City Center that presents staged concert performances of Off Broadway musicals. “Aching with gratitude for the music & joy he gave us,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of “Hamilton,” wrote on Twitter. Michael Friedman — he went by his middle name — took to music early. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he met the composer Elizabeth Swados, who was an artist-in-residence there, and who became an influential mentor for Mr. Friedman. And a new Civilians musical he wrote with Mr. Cosson, “The Abominables,” is scheduled to open Friday at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2017 18:01 UTC