Our Mission

To create the next great original musical.

That starts with a great story, which we have in the source material, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the most popular work of fiction in history. James Anthony Kidd has brought the story into the 21st century, with humor and warmth, creating a powerful meditation on celebrity, family, and the meaning of being a superhero.

James Anthony Kidd and Eric Swanson have co-written songs that help tell the story, but are also memorable and add emotional punch. Listen for yourself… the music videos I Believe in You, El Lago, and I Can Always Fly are posted. Contact us to hear the rest of the shows’ songs, produced by Eric Swanson, John Torres, and James Slocum.

Our Strategy:

Very few shows start out on Broadway. Nearly all get on their feet elsewhere and then go to Broadway. Come From Away started at Seattle Rep before going to Broadway. Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder started out at the Hartford Stage and the Old Globe in San Diego before winning the Best New Musical Tony in 2015. Hadestown started in Calgary and then the National Theatre in London before landing on Broadway. We are looking for a good regional theater with an Artistic Director and Board Members who have some courage and artistic ambition. We also are looking for investors who want to back a show with some purpose but also have an excellent chance of achieving profitability.

Why Blue Knight? And Why now?

Latinos make up 18% of the U.S. population but have pathetic representation in theater and on Broadway. Blue Knight is based on the novel of the greatest Latino writer of all time, Miguel Cervantes. One of its 3 leads and the story’s protagonist, Sancho, is Latino. But it’s a multi-racial cast and wholly in English, so it appeals to a large, yet diverse audience, something rarely seen on Broadway.

With all the superhero movies being made in Hollywood (it seems that’s about all they make), this is a fresh, theatrical take on a failed superhero looking for redemption. One of the show’s prominent themes is the exploration of what constitutes a true superhero. Blue Knight smashes the “white savior” trope and Hollywood superhero mythology. Artistic Directors have poo-poo’d it saying, “Our elderly white audiences will not accept such boundary-breaking.” We say break the boundaries and join the 21st century. What Blue Knight offers is nothing like what Hollywood produces. Ask us what our show alone can offer, in terms of publicity and goodwill, that “Wicked”, “Lion King” and “Hamilton” cannot. It’s pretty compelling. Very few other shows offer such a powerful testimonial to true heroism and can honor those so deserving. That’s Why Blue Knight and Why now…

NOTE: Some well-meaning theater folks have pointed out that a modern-day Don Quixote has already been done, and it’s called Man of La Mancha. We compared and contrasted Blue Knight with Man of La Mancha and found some striking differences. Man of La Mancha is set in 17th-century Spain, while Blue Knight is set in 21st-century America. Man of La Mancha is a serious drama, while Blue Knight is mostly a comedy. Thematically, Man of La Mancha is about Cervantes trying to complete writing Don Quixote (the novel) while being persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition. Blue Knight is about an actor who played a superhero on TV and how he tries to save a woman’s life, in an act of redemption. Other than both being inspired by Cervantes, one of the greatest writers in history, there are virtually no other similarities between these two shows. None.