Looking for Roberto Clemente

Imagination Stage
4908 Auburn Avenue Bethesda

Sam and Charlie are best friends and baseball fanatics in Pittsburgh, PA, in the year 1972. Puerto Rican superstar Roberto Clemente is the hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, having led the team to victory after years of losing. When a mysterious fly ball transforms Sam into a Little League Superstar pitcher, he is invited onto the most prestigious Little League team in town, while Charlie is rejected for being a girl. Charlie forms her own team with the less athletic kids and her new friend Tommy, a boy with a disability. Sam and Charlie ultimately discover what it truly means to be a “hero” when their final game coincides with Clemente’s fateful decision to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

Thru - May 22, 2016

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MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"...Imagination Stage’s current offering Looking for Roberto Clemente is another attempt to make a musical about a famous baseball player hit a home run and like The First the musical sections and performances are ultimately what knocks it out of the park."

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- Elliot Lanes

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

"...I think that is telling of whom this play is for. While many parents of TYA-aged kids may not have a strong connection with Roberto Clemente, I think grandparents will. A grandparent can tell a young audience member what it was like to watch Clemente's rise and share their experience of his tragic end. I'd recommend this production to parents and grandparents looking to connect with their young ones through sports, young audiences ready to deal with the complications of social issues in today's world, and adults looking for a healthy shot of nostalgia for 70's baseball."

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- Alan Katz

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