Eight years after the musical based on 'Once' swept the Tony Awards, the stage version of another film by Irish writer-director John Carney, 'Sing Street,' will come to Broadway in the spring
Barbara Broccoli, who controls the James Bond screen franchise, leads the producing team on the uptown transfer of, which begins previews March 26 ahead of an April 19 official opening. The show reportedly is being capitalized at $11 million, a relatively modest sum for a Broadway musical.
Other lead producers are Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Michael Wilson, Orin Wolf and Frederick Zollo, all of whom also worked with Broccoli oncenters on 16-year-old Conor, whose Dublin family has fallen on hard times during a period when many in Ireland are heading to England in search of work.
The musical is steeped in nostalgic affection for the New Wave Brit sounds of the era that spawned groups like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Haircut 100 and Spandau Ballet. Some of those bands' hits are folded into the catchy original score by Carney and Gary Clark, the former frontman of late-'80s Scottish band Danny Wilson, which had a breakout international hit with the 1987 song "Mary's Prayer."for the stage.
Set and costume design is by seven-time Tony winner Bob Crowley, while music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements are by Martin Lowe., many of whom play their own instruments, will reprise their roles on Broadway. While reviews for the show off-Broadway were mixed, many critics pointed up the promise of the material's crowd-pleasing elements; presumably the creative team will work at fine-tuning the production in the run-up to its Broadway bow and during previews.
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