A new stage musical version of the 1993 Tom Hanks comedy Sleepless in Seattle is set for a London world premiere next spring.
Sleepless, a Musical Romance will begin previews March 21 at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, with an opening night of March 31. The production was announced on the theater’s website.
Featuring a book by Michael Burdette, score by Robert Scott and Brendan Cull, and direction by Morgan Young, Sleepless will star two-time Olivier nominee Michael Xavier in the Hanks role of Sam, and Kimberley Walsh as Annie (the Meg Ryan role). Jobe Hart will play Sam’s son Jonah (Ross Malinger in the movie directed by Nora Ephron).
The new adaptation is not connected to the 2013 Sleepless in Seattle musical at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. The new musical is a Theatre Royal Plymouth production presented by Michael Rose and David Shor, in association with Marc Toberoff and the Bord Gais Energy Theatre,...
Sleepless, a Musical Romance will begin previews March 21 at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, with an opening night of March 31. The production was announced on the theater’s website.
Featuring a book by Michael Burdette, score by Robert Scott and Brendan Cull, and direction by Morgan Young, Sleepless will star two-time Olivier nominee Michael Xavier in the Hanks role of Sam, and Kimberley Walsh as Annie (the Meg Ryan role). Jobe Hart will play Sam’s son Jonah (Ross Malinger in the movie directed by Nora Ephron).
The new adaptation is not connected to the 2013 Sleepless in Seattle musical at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. The new musical is a Theatre Royal Plymouth production presented by Michael Rose and David Shor, in association with Marc Toberoff and the Bord Gais Energy Theatre,...
- 11/27/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Over 20 years after Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's onscreen love affair in Sleepless in Seattle left us all swooning, the popular love story is making its way back to a different kind of theater. According to Forbes, the 1993 rom-com is being made into a musical as we speak.
Forbes reported that the show's producers, Michael Rose and David Shor, have already obtained the rights to adapt the screenplay into a musical for which musicians Robert Scott and Brendan Cull will write the music, while Michael Burdette will work on the script. Shor and Rose are working to get the show off the ground in London's West End before the end of the year.
"We are in discussions with the three or four primary theater owners," Shor said. He also noted that an official debut date mostly "depends on schedules" and the results of the Olivier Awards, since many of...
Forbes reported that the show's producers, Michael Rose and David Shor, have already obtained the rights to adapt the screenplay into a musical for which musicians Robert Scott and Brendan Cull will write the music, while Michael Burdette will work on the script. Shor and Rose are working to get the show off the ground in London's West End before the end of the year.
"We are in discussions with the three or four primary theater owners," Shor said. He also noted that an official debut date mostly "depends on schedules" and the results of the Olivier Awards, since many of...
- 4/16/2019
- by Danielle Jackson
- Popsugar.com
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