Jimmie Tramel

Tulsa World Scene Reporter

A familiar and beloved story is returning to the nest.

S.E. Hinton wrote the 1967 young adult novel “The Outsiders” while she was a student at Will Rogers High School.

Francis Ford Coppola chose to shoot his 1983 adaptation of Hinton’s book in Tulsa.

And a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, inspired by Hinton’s book and Coppola’s film, has ignited a national tour that will begin in the town where the story was conceived.

The national tour will launch with performances Tuesday, Oct. 7, through Sunday, Oct. 12, at Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Tulsans will be introduced to a new Ponyboy, a new Johnny Cade and other characters from the greaser- and soc-populated tale created by Hinton.

Director Danya Taymor, whose work on the Broadway version

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