The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical
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Ratings7
Average rating3.9
Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon.
Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of the student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half.
When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide uproar that spirals out of control. Now, the PTA, led by Alyssa's mother, is threatening to cancel the prom altogether.
Enter Barry Glickman and Dee Dee Allen, two Broadway has-beens who see Emma's story as the perfect opportunity to restore their place in the limelight. But when they arrive in Indiana to fight on Emma's behalf, their good intentions go quickly south.
Between Emma facing the fray head-on, Alyssa wavering about coming out, and Barry and Dee Dee basking in all the attention, it's the perfect prom storm. Only when this unlikely group comes together do they realize that love is always worth fighting for.
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Read this in my chronicly online musical theater phase,
It is just a phase you will be okay
This book isn't super deep but I related to the main characters VERY HARD. Some of it seems very absurdist — I still don't really know how Broadway or theater tied into this At All?? — but it has a very good heart. I listened to the musical it was based on afterwards — I was not previously familiar — and it sounds completely disjointed and nonsensical.
