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= Prom Queen: The Musical = Prom Queen: The Musical is a Canadian musical with a book by Kent Staines, music by Colleen Dauncey, and lyrics by Akiva Romer-Segal. It is based on Marc Hall's true story and the proceeding films (both documentary and scripted) around his case against an Ontario Catholic school board. As in the real case, the musical focuses on Marc's fight against his school board after they disallow him to take his boyfriend to his high school prom.

After much production development, in October 2016, the world premiere of Prom Queen: The Musical opened at Montreal's Segal Centre for Performing Arts.

Background
The musical is based on a true story. In 2002, in Oshawa, Ontario, the Durham Catholic District School Board denied 17 year old Marc Hall the ability to take his same-sex date to prom. Hall, then, legally fought against this decision and won in the Hall v Durham Catholic School Board case.

The case inspired two films. In 2002, the documentary, Prom Fight, was released. The scripted film, Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story, then came out in 2004. The musical’s book writer, Kent Staines, was the screenwriter for this film.

In previous productions of the musical, Marc's actor has had dyed blue hair to match the real-life Marc Hall's hair at the time of the instance.

Plot
The show opens in 17 year old Marc Hall’s bedroom before his mother, Emily Hall, wakes him up for school. While Marc attends high school, his 21 year old boyfriend, Jason, works on a construction site. Marc contemplates asking Jason to his high school prom. However, at school, Principal Warrick tells Marc that he is not allowed to bring a same-sex date to the prom. Meanwhile, other students worry about asking their peers to prom including the school nerds. Boomer Bronson, the school’s popular jock, expresses his desire to ask Marc’s best friend, Carly, to prom.

As a result of the school's decision, Marc’s friends, family, and fellow students join together to fight for Marc to go to prom. Marc appeals to the school board; he then hires a lawyer, Lonnie Wynn, to fight against the board in a legal case. Fellow students protest with signs in favour of Marc.

Throughout these events, Emily advocates for her son to attend the prom while contemplating if it conflicts with her religious beliefs. Marc’s father, Audy Hall, tries to come to terms with Marc's sexuality.

The show ends with a celebratory prom.

Act 1:
"Say Yes" – Marc & Ensemble

"Say Yes (Reprise)" – Marc

"So Right" – Marc & Jason

"Inside Out" – Marc, Carly, Kristal, Tiff & Ensemble

"Game Face" – Boomer, Carly, Napoleon, Triple, Kristal & Tiff

"Game Face (Reprise)" – Boomer

"Infinite" – Marc

"The Louder We Get" – Jason, Marc, Carly & Ensemble

Act 2:
"Wynn" – Lonnie & Ensemble

"The Old You" – Carly & Boomer

“The Old You” – Carly & Boomer

"Mother Mary" – Emily & Ensemble

"Smile for the Camera" – Lonnie, Marc, Ms. Lawrence, Carly & Ensemble

"Infinite (Reprise)" – Audy

"No Exceptions" – Marc, Carly & Ensemble

"Wynn (Reprise)" – Lonnie

"Say Yes (Reprise 2)" – Jason

"This Dance" – Ensemble

Development and productions
Six years after the Hall v Durham Catholic School Board case, Kent Staines began the creative process in 2008. That same year, the musical had a Playwright Residency in Toronto, Ontario at Young People's Theatre. Staines said that he could draw information for the musical from abundant media coverage, his own film script, and Marc Hall himself. On writing the musical, Staines said: "It was a matter of fusing what really happened, with what would be interesting and entertaining on the stage."

It underwent several workshops, at which selections of the production were performed. In 2014, this was at Sheridan College’s Canadian Music Theatre Project in Oakville, Ontario. In 2015, this was at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Ontario. The musical was further developed in 2018 at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, Connecticut.

This musical premiered in Montreal at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in 2016. This production was originally supposed to run from October 27 to November 20 before it was extended until November 23. In October 2017, the musical was performed in New York at the 29th Annual Festival of New Musicals presented by the National Alliance of Musical Theatre. It was then performed at The Other Palace in London, England on July 2 2018; this included both a matinée and an evening performance.

London, Ontario's Grand Theatre's 2018 production of the musical ran from September 18 to 29. This production was part of the theatre’s High School Project with a cast and crew consisting of 80 students from 16 local high-schools. It marked the first secondary school student involved production of the musical.