Metro is a musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 with music by Janusz Stokłosa and lyrics by Agata and Maryna Miklaszewska. Its director and the choreographer was Janusz Józefowicz. It focuses on a story of a group of youngsters who, for various reasons, decide to live underground, in the subway tunnels. The play, initially staged in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

's Teatr Dramatyczny, was a major success in Poland. It was also the first privately-funded performance to be staged in post-war Poland and the first to feature a modern scenic design including an extensive use of lasers.

The musical opened on Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 at the Minskoff Theatre

Minskoff Theatre

The Minskoff Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre, located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. It is now showing the musical The Lion King, based on the Disney animated film of the same name....

 on April 16, 1992 and closed on April 26, 1992, after 13 performances and 24 previews. The lyrics were translated by Mary Bracken Phillips and the director and choreographer was Janusz Józefowicz. Although it was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score

Tony Award for Best Original Score

The Tony Award for Best Original Score is the Tony Award given to the composers and lyricists of the best original score written for a musical in that year. The score consists of music and lyrics...

, it received mixed reviews and soon closed. The 1998 production in Moscow

Moscow

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, Russia

Russia

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, proved to be a success and the musical is still occasionally staged both in Poland and in Russia.

The Polish version of the musical is notable for a large number of young artists who started their career in its crew. Among those who rose to fame were Edyta Górniak

Edyta Górniak

Edyta Górniak is one of the most popular female singers from Poland.- Beginnings :At the age of 14 Górniak formed a band and was playing at private parties and evening dances. After taking singing lessons, in 1989, aged 16, she gave her first public appearance on a Polish television talent show...

, Katarzyna Groniec, Robert Janowski, Michał Milowicz

Michał Milowicz

Michał Milowicz is a Polish singer and actor. He also dubs foreign films.- Actor :* Młode wilki as policeman* Klan as driver* Sztos as student* Ja, Malinowski as Dziad...

 and Natasza Urbańska

Natasza Urbanska

Natasza Urbanska is a Polish actress, singer, dancer and TV presenter.- Filmography :- Singles :*2010: "All The Wrong Places"*2010: "Here I Am"*2010: "Listen To My Radio".*2010: "Love Stone Crazy".*2009: "Mała"....

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In 2009 Stokłosa and Józefowicz started making screening of the musical.

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing