![]() ![]() SHINE! was announced for Broadway in 1982, but production was canceled when producer 20th Century Fox disbanded its newly formed theatre division. ![]() Anderson and Goldsmith had previously collaborated on the 1993 musical Chaplin. Richard Seff wrote the book, Lee Goldsmith the lyrics and Roger Anderson the music. Its plot and characters focus on Alger's pervasive theme: that in America one could begin with nothing, and with the right attitude, hard work, application, and a little bit of luck, dream a dream and chart a course on which to achieve it. SHINE! is a musical based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger, particularly 1868 novel Ragged Dick and Silas Snobden's Office Boy, respectively Alger's first best-seller and the one first printed in book form eighty years after it was first serialized in Argosy. SHINE!ฤก983 Virginia Museum Theatre, 2010 NYC Premiere Theatre at St. For other uses, see Shine (disambiguation). ![]()
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