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Larry Kirwan, the frontman for the famed Irish American rock group Black 47, helped conceive the new musical Paradise Square.
Larry Kirwan adds his name as co-writer to the powerhouse production team of choreographer Bill T. Jones and director Moisés Kaufman in a forthcoming Broadway show called Paradise Square, which is set in the Five Points of New York City in 1863 as the Civil War rages.
“It’s about two brutalized peoples, Irish and African-American, one fleeing famine, and one fleeing slavery, who meet in the Five Points, and, for a brief moment, change the flow of American history, until America catches up with it," Kirwan, who previously contributed a weekly column about Black 47 to IrishCentral, told The New York Times.