| Altar Boyz | |
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| Music | Gary Adler Michael Patrick Walker |
| Lyrics | Gary Adler Michael Patrick Walker |
| Book | Kevin Del Aguila |
| Productions | 2004 NY Musical Theatre Festival 2005 Off Broadway 2007-2009 U.S. tour Korean Hungarian 2007 Chicago Resident Production 2009 Celebration Theatre Production |
Altar Boyz is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker and a book by Kevin Del Aguila (based on an idea by Marc J. Kessler and Ken Davenport). Centering on a fictitious Christian boy band from Ohio, the show satirizes, among other things, the phenomenon of boy bands and the popularity of Christian-themed music in contemporary American culture. It began an Off Broadway run on March 1, 2005, and closed on January 10, 2010, after sixteen previews and 2,032 regular performances, making it the 9th longest-running Off-Broadway musical of all time.