The stage adaptation of the Cameron Crowe movie joins an already buzzy 2022-2023 theatrical lineup.
It’s lastly all occurring.
Nearly Well-known, a musical adaptation of Cameron Crowe’s 2000 movie, introduced a Broadway run beginning Sept. 13. The musical, which contains a e book and music by Crowe, has scheduled a gap night time for Oct. 11. The run will happen in a Shubert theater, however the actual theater has not but been introduced.
Directed by Jeremy Herrin (Wolf Corridor, Noises Off), the musical options authentic music and lyrics by Tom Kitt, the composer of Subsequent to Regular and the musical arranger and orchestrator of rock-based musicals comparable to Jagged Little Tablet and American Fool.
The variation largely follows the plot of Crowe’s semi-autobiographical movie set within the Seventies. Within the movie, 15-year-old William Miller travels with a fictional band on tour as a part of an project for Rolling Stone. The movie garnered Crowe an Oscar for finest screenplay, in addition to nominations for Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand. Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Jason Lee and Philip Seymour Hoffman rounded out the solid.
The Broadway manufacturing will star Chris Wooden (Supergirl) as Russell Hammond, Anika Larsen (Lovely: The Carole King Musical) as Elaine Miller, Solea Pfeiffer (Evita) as Penny Lane, Drew Gehling (Waitress) as Jeff Bebe and Casey Likes as William Miller. Sarah O’Gleby joins the manufacturing as choreographer, taking on from Lorin Latarro who departed the present as a consequence of scheduling conflicts.
The musical involves Broadway after an out-of-town tryout at San Francisco’s Previous Globe in 2019 and after lately teasing a 2022 Broadway run. Lia Vollack of Columbia Reside Stage and the Michael Cassel Group are the lead producers on the manufacturing.
The musical is the most recent entrant into the buzzy 2022-2023 Broadway season. Different introduced productions embrace an eight-week run of Into the Woods starring Sara Bareilles, a musical adaptation of Some Like It Scorching, new musical Kimberly Akimbo, the Samuel L. Jackson-ledPiano Lesson, a revival of Dying of a Salesman and an Aaron Sorkin adaptation of Camelot.