Bruce Lazarus (who produced “Say Goodnight Gracie,” nominated for best play at the 2003 Tony Awards) and Jeff Calhoun (who was nominated for best director at the 2012 Tony Awards for “Newsies”) joined producers Willie and Korie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame. The show was made possible through an unexpected alliance of Broadway veterans and evangelical celebrities. Audiences of up to 1,300 will sit in plush, velvet seats surrounding the stage in the main tent, which is rigged with heating and air conditioning. On May 5, “ His Story” - a new musical about the life of Jesus with book, music and lyrics by Brown - will begin previews just north of Dallas in a “tent village” designed and built for the show’s open-ended run. “It was going to be through music, and through the way this ‘Hamilton’ musical had impacted me.”

“I was praying and talking to God, and I felt like God spoke to me and told me that my way of sharing the faith I’d found wasn’t going to be through traveling or telling people the old-fashioned way,” Brown told media. Brown thought musicals were cheesy but was stirred by the rap-infused songs about the ambitious Founding Father. The homeschooled daughter of evangelical missionaries, Brown was sitting in a bus recovering from heat stroke on a mission trip in Kenya when a friend played her the hit “Hamilton” album. Sixteen-year-old Anna Miriam Brown didn’t know how to play piano in 2017, but she knew God was calling her to write a musical.

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