- Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen are teaming as much as carry 10 Issues I Hate About You to the Broadway stage
- The musical will reportedly characteristic a e book co-written by Dunham and a rating co-written by Jepsen
- A launch date for the manufacturing has not but been introduced
10 Issues I Hate About You is getting the Broadway therapy.
Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen are teaming as much as carry the beloved 1999 teen rom-com, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, to the Nice White Means as a musical adaptation, PEOPLE confirms.
Jepsen, 39, will co-write the rating with Ethan Gruska, whom she has collaborated with on her personal music previously. Dunham, 38, has been tapped to co-write the e book with playwright Jessica Huang, based on Billboard, which was the primary to report the information.
“I can let you know 10 issues I’m enthusiastic about proper now or simply skip to primary which is engaged on this dream mission with this dream crew! #10ThingsMusical,” Jepsen captioned an Instagram post celebrating the information.
The manufacturing shall be directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon (An American in Paris, MJ: The Musical), per Billboard. Two-time Tony winner Tom Kitt (Subsequent to Regular, Virtually Well-known) will function music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator, with Mike Bosner producing.
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Co-written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith and tailored from William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, 10 Issues I Hate About You follows high-school senior Kat Stratford (Stiles), a high-achieving, sharp-tongued loner who takes the world at face worth and desires of leaving her West Coast city for Sarah Lawrence Faculty in New York.
At dwelling, she is consistently in comparison with her perky, widespread youthful sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) by their overprotective single father Walter (Larry Miller). Kat’s world is quickly turned the other way up by the arrival of Patrick Verona (Ledger), an edgy new pupil who makes her look inside herself in a means she has been hesitant to for therefore lengthy.
Directed by Gil Junger, the movie additionally starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union, David Krumholtz, Allison Janney Andrew Keegan, Susan May Pratt and extra, and is called a lot for its iconic ’90s soundtrack as its story, performances and quotable dialogue.
In January, Stiles advised PEOPLE at a New York Metropolis screening of her directorial debut Want You Have been Right here that 10 Issues is the film for which she is most “acknowledged.”
“Kat Stratford was like this feisty outspoken woman who didn’t care what individuals thought of her,” the actress and filmmaker mentioned of he character. “So it meant rather a lot to me to be in that film and that it resonates with individuals nonetheless is so nice.”
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Given all the memorable musical moments within the film (together with cameos from bands Letters to Cleo and Save Ferris), PEOPLE requested Junger in 2024 whether or not there had ever been speak of a 10 Issues stage adaptation, within the vein of different teen classics like Heathers, Clueless, Imply Women and Bring It On which have made their option to the stage.
“I used to be contacted by a Broadway producer who actually was exploring doing precisely that, and so they known as me to see if I might bless it. They mentioned, ‘We need to flip 10 Issues right into a musical, and we predict it will be extraordinary. Would you direct it?’ ” mentioned Junger, 70, on the time.
The filmmaker did not hesitate to say he’d “in fact” be on board to steer the manufacturing however he “by no means heard something extra about it,” noting the “Disney authorized system” might have had one thing to do with the holdup. (A rep for Disney did not reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark on the time.)
“I assume they did not have the imaginative and prescient that this youthful Broadway producer had, as a result of it ought to’ve been … it nonetheless may,” Junger added. “The film resonates so powerfully nonetheless at the moment.”
A gap date for 10 Issues I Hate About You on Broadway has not but been introduced.
