Following an acclaimed and record-setting run at Arizona’s Phoenix Theater Company, ¡Americano!, a new American musical is now playing a 12-week limited engagement through June 19 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street.) Opening night is May 1 at 7PM. ¡Americano! features an original score by acclaimed singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez (“Lola,” named as one of NPR’s top 50 albums of the year), a book by Michael Barnard (Producing Artistic Director, Phoenix Theatre Company), Jonathan Rosenberg, and Fernanda Santos (award winning author, The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots), and additional lyrics by Barnard and Rosenberg. Michael Barnard also serves as the director. ¡Americano! was conceived and is presented by Quixote Productions(Jason Rose, Lead Producer) in association with Chicanos Por La Causa(Executive Producer).

Tickets are now on sale at Telecharge.com, (212) 239-6200. ¡Americano! is the true story – the life, the challenges, and the trials – of Tony Valdovinos, a DREAMer brought to America by his parents when he was two years old. Inspired by 9/11, on his 18th birthday Tony walked into a Marine Corps recruitment office to enlist, only to discover his parents hadn’t told him he was an undocumented immigrant. But Tony did not give up on his dream to serve the only country he had ever known. Instead, he discovered alternatively powerful ways to serve and inspire by combating voter suppression and galvanizing a community to fight for representation in government. ¡Americano! casts a deeply human light on what it means to be a DREAMer, at a time when America’s ongoing debates over immigration and disenfranchisement continue. 

¡Americano! features Sean Ewing (West Side Story and Amazing Grace on Broadway; The Visitor at The Public) portrays Valdovinos, leading a near-entirely Latino company including Legna Cedillo, Yassmin AlersJohanna Carlisle-ZepedaJoseph Paul CavazosLucas CoatneyDevin Cortez, Juan Luis EspinalJustin Figueroa, Rubén Flores, Megan Elyse Fulmer, Henry Julián GendronAnne-Lise Koyabe Alessandro J. LopezEdgar Lopez, Carolina MirandaAlex PaezRyan ReyesLannie RubioNicole Paloma SarroRobbie SerranoMaria Cristina Posada Slye and Pablo Torres.