The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

Saundra Mitchell · Bob Martin · Chad Beguelin · Matthew Sklar

Sep 2019 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Caitlin Kinnunen, Isabelle McCalla, Beth Leavel, Joshua Lamon, and Tara Sands

About this audiobook

An honest, laugh-out-loud, feel-good novel inspired by the Tony-nominated musical The Prom, read by members of the original Broadway cast!

Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. 

Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of the student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half. 

When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide uproar that spirals out of control. Now, the PTA, led by Alyssa's mother, is threatening to cancel the prom altogether.

Enter Barry Glickman and Dee Dee Allen, two Broadway stars who decide to take up the cause and get a little publicity along the way. But when they arrive in Indiana to fight on Emma's behalf, their good intentions go quickly south. 

Between Emma facing the fray head-on, Alyssa wavering about coming out, and Barry and Dee Dee basking in all the attention, it's the perfect prom storm. Only when this unlikely group comes together do they realize that love is always worth fighting for.

Read by Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla, with Beth Leavel, Joshua Lamon, and Tara Sands. Includes an interview of Chad Beguelin, Bob Martin, and Matthew Sklar from the musical’s creative team conducted by cast member Joshua Lamon.

Ratings and reviews

I've seen the movie, musical, and even read the book first so I know how the story goes already but when I saw there was also an audiobook and it was narrated by Caitlin and Izzy, I just had to listen to this. Despite of knowing like 3 versions of it already, it was still a new experience for me. I think I was smiling most of the time I was listening to it. Caitlin and Izzy did a really great job! I really like the alternate POV and the intro music and singing! love it! So even if you have already seen the movie, musical, and read the book, I'm telling you this one is still worth to try!

I actually want to ask a question-- If I download the book in my phone, will I still be able to access it on my tablet? Since I used the same account and all-- Or if my phone broke, and I got another phone, logged my playstore acc there, would I still have the book?

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About the author

Saundra Mitchell is the author of over twenty books for tweens and teens. Her work includes two anthologies for teens, Defy the Dark and All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages. For twenty years, she was the head screenwriter and an executive producer with Dreaming Tree Films on their various teen filmmaking programs and earned Academy Award eligibility ten times during her tenure. In her free time, she enjoys fandom, studying history, crochet, and spending time with her wife and her daughters. Her pronouns are Any/Any.

Matthew Sklar is a Tony® and Emmy® Award nominated composer. His works include the Broadway musicals: Elf, The Wedding Singer and The Prom.

Chad Beguelin is a four-time Tony® Nominee whose works include the Broadway musicals: Aladdin, Elf, The Wedding Singer and, of course, The Prom.

Bob Martin is a writer, performer, and producer of many celebrated musicals and television shows. The Prom is his third work on Broadway following the hit shows Elf and The Drowsy Chaperone, for which he earned a Tony Award.