This rollicking and acrobatic musical, with dialogue and lyrics by Sam and music by the genius Kim D. Sherman, will run through mid-August at The Imagination Stage in suburban Washington DC.
NPR's "All Things Considered" did a piece on the musical. Listen to it by clicking
here. (It will give you a taste of what the show is like, with snippets of songs.)
For schedule and tickets, go to
imaginationstage.org.
I Am a Pencil was named by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of the Year. It won a Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, and an excerpt won The Bechtel Prize. It was also featured on National Public Radio's program "All Things Considered." Listen to Melissa Block's interview of Sam Swope
here. The book has been translated into Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. Click
here to read about Sam's alternately hilarious and moving trip to Japan to promote its publication there.
