Golden Boy is a musical with a book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.Based on the 1937 play of the same name by Odets it focuses on Joe Wellington a young man from Harlem who despite his family’s objections turns to prizefighting as a means of escaping his ghetto roots and finding fame and fortune.
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