This is a piece my Composition Professor, Don Freund, wrote and had the choir I am in premiere last year. :) It's amazing stuff.
I don't think people really appreciate contemporary musical theatre like they should. It's incredibly moving stuff. I hope to be able to write like this some day.
Have fun listening, and feel free to discuss! I'll be involved.
(if you don't wanna listen to all thirty something minutes, skip to around 21 minutes and listen through the end of "He Died in Detroit". You might wanna listen to the whole thing, then. haha.