"FOOTLOOSE"
Stage adaptation by Dean Pitchford & Walter Bobbie
Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford
Music by Tom Snow | Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Additional Music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Haga, Kenny Loggins & Jim Steinman
Footloose first burst onto the silver screen in 1984 and proved to be one of the year's most successful motion pictures. The soundtrack recording reached #1 on the Billboard charts, and went on to sell over 17 million copies worldwide, generating such Top Forty hits as its title song and "Let's Hear it for the Boy" (both of which received Academy Award nominations), plus "Almost Paradise," "Holding Out for a Hero," and "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)." With a screenplay and lyrics by Oscar winner Dean Pitchford.
Footloose opened on Broadway on October 22, 1998. The next day, the show broke the box office record for the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it continued to thrill audiences through July 2000.