Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have created a contemporary "fractured fairytale,"adding song and dance and a castle full of characters to Hans Christian Andersen's delightful tale. The Washington Post called THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES "a sweet and funnymusical with a quirky, helium-light score...a memorable tribute to the power offriendship."
Emperor Marcus the Third wonders how he can possibly run an empire when he's only 14 years old. In an attempt to appear more mature to his people, he accepts the credo that "clothes make the man," but soon finds himself the centre of a hoax. Who can blame him for getting into a royal mess--only to find that "no matter how grand or small you appear/the person who counts is the person in here!" And "here," as everyone knows, is your heart.