The Broadway musical “The Outsiders” will receive an archival video recording. The winner of the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical will be filmed on July 11 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for inclusion in its Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT).
Established in 1970, TOFT is a digital archive within the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the performing art library, located at Lincoln Center. TOFT preserves video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional productions, which are available to watch in-person at the library by theater professionals, researchers and students. While not every Broadway production receives a recording, many each season are indeed included. Recent additions from the 2023-2024 Broadway season alone include recordings of “How to Dance in Ohio,” Mother Play,” “Lempicka” and “The Wiz,” as well as 2024 Best Revival of a Play Tony winner “Appropriate” and 2024 Best Revival of a Musical Tony winner “Merrily We Roll Along.”
“The Outsiders” features a Tony-nominated score by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine, as well as a Tony Award-nominated book by Adam Rapp and Levine, based on the 1967 novel by Susie Hinton and the 1983 film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola. The Tulsa-set “Outsiders” is a coming-of-age story of two rival teenage gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The Danya Taymor-directed musical opened on Broadway on April 11, 2024 and received 12 Tony Award nominations, winning four, including trophies for Best Musical and Taymor’s direction.
