Musicals establish on popular moviesare familiar menu on Broadway . What ’s strange is that a film that seems like sucha slam - stuff shot to adaptasThe Princess Bridehas yet to make its stage debut — nearly 40 yr after hitting dramatics , and most a decade since the glob finally got ramble on creating its musical edition . Well , now there ’s an update that ’s maybe not “ storming the castle ” level of hullabaloo , but it ’s at least a nugget of Leslie Townes Hope .
Speaking toVarietyin a while frame up around their current Broadway releaseSmash , itself accommodate from a TV serial publication , co - writers Bob Martin and Rick Elice were asked for a position update onThe Princess Bridemusical .
“ It ’s march on nicely , in reality , ” Martin said . “ t ’s been a long journey for that one — almost 10 years now , I conceive . But it is progressing with the new composition squad . I do n’t know if we ’re allow to name them ! We can say that we ’re doing a substantial workshop at the remnant of the summer go into spill . We ’ve been working on it in various fashion over the last few days , but we ’re going to sit down with all the material then . ”
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Elice add , “ ride out tuned ! ”
The tidings “ substantial ” is certainly promising . And it seems like a musical would garner more of a overconfident response fromPrincess Bridefans — who go back generation at this period — than a full - on cinematic remake would , an musical theme that ’s also been floatedover the years .
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