Musical sagas about white-slave traders turning songwriters are in short supply on stage (as in life), but that oversight has been remedied by a novice, Christopher Smith, a cop from Philadelphia, who wrote himself his own ticket to Broadway as concept creator-composer-lyricist-and (with Arthur Giron) bookwriter for Amazing Grace, a show based on the autobiography of one such whip-cracking tunesmi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM on July 17, 2015