The film concerns an introverted 14-year-old boy living in New York City, whose love of musicals translate to an overactive imagination, stemmed from his natural creativity. But that creativity leads to trouble in school and more at home, where his naysayer mother crushes his artistic nature and his dream of being on Broadway himself.

Kreis won the Tony for Million Dollar Quartet; Ripley won the Tony for Next to Normal; Aduba was most recently seen in Godspell, and Erlick appeared in Billy Elliot.