Alive at Ten wins Margo Lion Adaptation Award

Alive at Ten has been selected to receive the 2007 Margo Lion Adaptation Award, it was announced Dec. 3.

Margo Lion, the Tony-award winning producer of hits including Hairspray and Angels in America, will provide funding for a 2008 industry workshop of the musical, book by Kirsten A. Guenther and music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver.  A small portion of the award will be also earmarked for the writers in the form of a cash honorarium.

Alive at Ten is based on court-documented testimony provided in the trial of Pamela Smart, who climbed to infamy in 1991 for seducing her sixteen-year-old student into murdering her husband in the hopes of achieving fame as a TV news anchor.

The show is also the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, a full cast album through the Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music, and has been selected for presentation through readings and workshops by the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Stephen Schwartz, Carnegie-Mellon, NYU-Steinhardt, NYU-Tisch, and the Los Angeles Festival for New American Musicals.

Dates, cast, and team for the workshop have not been set.