Angelina Jolie Opens Up About 'Extraordinary' Impact of “The Outsiders” as Tony-Winning Musical Begins Tour (Exclusive)

Angelina Jolie is reflecting connected nan effect of nan The Outsiders arsenic nan musical's North American circuit of launches.

In videos captured by nan accumulation that PEOPLE tin exclusively share, Jolie — who coproduced nan Tony Award-winning show — discusses really The Outsiders has resonated pinch audiences since nan adjustment of S.E. Hinton’s seminal 1967 caller and Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic movie deed nan stage.

"Somebody said, 'You know, this is simply a uniquely American story.' But I person besides recovered it bonzer really overmuch nan communicative has resonated globally," Jolie, 50, says, during a speech pinch Danya Taymor, who directed The Outsiders.

"It's what we person successful common," she adds. "Everywhere successful nan world has thing that has challenged those neighborhoods, those families, those people, wherever you're wondering your spot and wherever communities aliases people systems put group against each different and person made them consciousness very different and very separate."

The Outsiders opened connected Broadway connected April 11, 2024, to rave reviews, and is now successful its 2nd twelvemonth astatine New York’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. It went connected to triumph 4 Tonys including Best Musical.

On Wednesday, Oct. 8, nan North American circuit opens astatine nan Tulsa Performing Arts Center successful Tulsa, Okla. — wherever nan communicative is set. Author Hinton, now 77, wrote nan original caller arsenic a precocious schoolhouse student successful nan city.

"It's truthful different, and I opportunity that to everybody that says thing astir seeing it," Jolie says of nan production, successful a speech pinch Taymor and different creatives down nan philharmonic and its upcoming tour, including co-writer Justin Levine and choreographers Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman.

"And truthful that's why I'm truthful excited, because I cognize nan magnitude of group that are going to resistance their fathers aliases resistance personification to spell spot it," she adds. "And past it's gonna beryllium that personification you resistance that falls successful emotion pinch it and has nan profound acquisition much than - I americium truthful judge of that crossed nan tour, right?"

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The Outsiders tells nan communicative of Ponyboy Curtis, his champion friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of ‘outsiders’ conflict pinch their able rivals, nan Socs. The communicative navigates nan complexities of self-discovery arsenic nan Greasers dream astir who they want to go successful a world that whitethorn ne'er judge them.

Starring successful nan circuit are Nolan White, Banal Fambrini, Tyler Jordan Wesley, Travis Roy Rogers, Corbin Drew Ross, Emma Hearn, Jaydon Nget, Mark Doyle, Jackson Reagin, and Jordan DeAndre Williams. The production's touring institution besides features Seth Ajani, Christian Arredondo, Brandon Mel Borkowsky, Dante D’Antonio, Gina Gagliano, Hannah Jennens, Giuseppe Little, Sebastian Martinez, Abby Matsusaka, Justice Moore, Mekhi Payne, John Michael Peterson, Katie Riedel, Luke Sabracos, and Johnathan Tanner.

After The Outsiders' touring accumulation debuts successful Tulsa, the philharmonic will extremity successful much than 30 cities crossed nan U.S. and Canada betwixt now and September 2026. 

The accumulation is besides expanding "The Stay Gold Project" successful business pinch SONIC Drive-In. A play connected a celebrated statement from nan original caller and its adaptation, nan acquisition inaugural helps guarantee mediate and precocious schoolhouse students astatine nationalist schools who wouldn’t different beryllium capable to be nan accumulation are capable to spot nan show by offering free tickets and acquisition resources.

To date, nan task has fixed much than 2,000 tickets to New York City nationalist schoolhouse students to spot nan philharmonic connected Broadway for free. Many of those students person ne'er seen a Broadway show before.

For much accusation and to bargain tickets for The Outsiders connected Broadway and crossed North America connected tour, sojourn www.OutsidersMusical.com.