A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Encores! presents A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, featuring music by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and a book by George Abbott & Betty Smith, with revised book By Eleanor Renfield.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of the Nolan Clan, a Brooklyn working-class family at the turn of the century. They are Johnny, who finds relief in a bottle, his wife Katie, their daughter Francie, who idolizes her father, and Cissy, Johnny’ sister-in-law, who has a string of affairs.