Altar Boyz

Altar Boyz
MusicGary Adler
Michael Patrick Walker
LyricsGary Adler
Michael Patrick Walker
BookKevin Del Aguila
Productions2004 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.