Harvey Milk Francisco had no idea. It was just a really brief, provincial, localized current events story that the mayor and a city council member in San Francisco were killed. It didn't have much reverberation." Milk's life has been the subject of a musical theater production; an eponymous opera; a cantata; a children's picture book; a French-language historical novel for young-adult readers; and the biopic "Milk", released in 2008 after 15 years in the making. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, and won two Academy Awards for Best
Letter to Harvey Milk Letter to Harvey Milk Letter to Harvey Milk is a musical composed by Laura l. Kramer, lyrics by Ellen M. Schwartz, book by Jerry James; it is based on Lesléa Newman's short story of the same name. It won the Richard Rodgers Award in 2012. Its New York premier at the New York Musical Theatre Festival was directed by David Schechter and starred Leslie Kritzer, Jeff Keller, Cheryl Stern, Brandon Uranowitz and Sara Corey. Synopsis Harry – a retired Kosher butcher and widower – wakes up from a nightmare. His deceased wife, Frannie, is “woken up” by the noise and