Golden Boy (musical)

Golden Boy
Original Broadway Poster
Music	Charles Strouse
Lyrics	Lee Adams
Book	Clifford Odets William Gibson
Basis	Play Golden Boy by Clifford Odets
Productions	1964 Broadway 1968 West End

Golden Boy is a 1964 musical with a book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.

Based on the 1937 play of the same name by Odets, it focuses on Joe Wellington, a young man from Harlem who, despite his family's objections, turns to prizefighting as a means of escaping his ghetto roots and finding fame and fortune. He crosses paths with Mephistopheles-like promoter Eddie Satin and eventually betrays his manager Tom Moody when he becomes romantically involved with Moody's girlfriend Lorna Moon.