is a musical based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger, particularly 1868 novel Ragged Dick and Silas Snobden's Office Boy,[1] respectively Alger's first best-seller and the one first printed in book form eighty years after it was first serialized in Argosy.
Richard Seff wrote the book, Lee Goldsmith the lyrics and Roger Anderson the music.
was announced for Broadway in 1982, but production was canceled when producer 20th Century Fox disbanded its newly formed theatre division.
[1] The recording featured performers including Carole Shelley, Harvey Evans, Brooks Ashmanskas and Andréa Burns.
In October 2010 the New York premiere production of a completely revised version of the show takes place at NYMF, Theatre at St. Clement's under the direction of Peter Flynn, choreography by Dev Janki, arrangements and orchestrations by Greg Anthony Rassen, and starring Andy Mientus as the hero.