When Lee Summers arrived in New York from Nashville at 20, his story mirrored so many others. He settled in with a friend in the Village with no more than $400 in the bank and a dream of making a name for himself in the theater. Within months, he booked the first show he auditioned for, The Peanut Man, a musical about George Washington Carver. Soon after he made his Broadway debut in the original production of Dreamg…