What makes a Brooklyn rapper settle in Tulsa, Oklahoma? Danny Boy O’Connor, founding father of House of Pain and now the director of The Outsiders House Museum, joined “Mornings On 1” Thursday to make clear his adventure.
“I got to Tulsa. And I felt like it rang a bell for me, and I was like, ‘Wait, I’ve been here, but I haven’t been here.’ So I went looking for locations,” O’Connor stated.
This realization sparked a adventure of discovery, main him to iconic places from “The Outsiders” movie directed via Francis Ford Coppola, and different spots described via the ebook’s writer S. E. Hinton. Years after his first adventure to town, he would pass on to buy the precise space featured in the film.
“I had no plans to leave Los Angeles, I thought I’d help build this museum and then go back and forth,” O’Connor stated. “But the people there are so fantastic, and they literally pick me up, put me on their backs and they built this museum for me.”
He went directly to settle in Tulsa to run the museum he helped determine, and now welcomes visitors from far and wide the arena keen to be told concerning the ebook and the making of the 1983 movie.
With the ebook taking middle degree as soon as once more because it makes its Broadway debut Thursday night time, O’Connor is hoping that it is going to start a brand new technology of fanatics.
“You’re gonna find future generations. They’re already discovered through the book. I mean, every year seventh and eighth graders read this worldwide, and we get them from all over the world to Tulsa, but the musical is now going to push everybody over, it’s going to really bring in all kinds of new fans,” he stated.
Meanwhile, he’s hoping the tourism will inspire extra folks to profit from town’s new incentive, which can pay far flung staff $10,000 to settle in town.
When requested about why New Yorkers may believe making the transfer, O’Connor highlighted town’s colourful inventive scene and inexpensive residing.
“The American Dream is alive and well there,” he stated. “You can come live there. We have Route 66 running through there, amazing parks, amazing people, amazing restaurants, gas is cheap. There’s nothing that I don’t like about it. So if you can get $10,000 on top of coming there, have at it.”