A brand new musical that includes the songs of James Taylor is in growth.
The mission, entitled Hearth & Rain, will function an authentic story written by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts and route by Tony Award winner David Cromer.
The present is in early growth phases and a manufacturing timeline has not but been introduced. Gail Berman, Sam Feldman, Michael Gorfaine and Broadway theater proprietor Jimmy Nederlander are producing in affiliation with Frank Marshall and Jere Harris.
The title for the present comes from Taylor’s well-known tune, “Hearth and Rain,” which was launched in 1970 on his second album, Candy Child James, and reached quantity three on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart. The six-time Grammy Award profitable singer and songwriter, whose hit songs embrace “You’ve Received a Good friend” and “Candy Child James,” has not beforehand had his catalog utilized in a serious theatrical manufacturing. Nevertheless, two picks from his album Flag had been featured within the musical Working.
Letts wrote the acclaimed play, August: Osage County, along with Killer Joe, Bug, which all have been tailored into movie, and Superior Donuts, which was tailored in TV sequence. He has additionally received a Tony Award for his portrayal of George within the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and has been seen on display in movies corresponding to Woman Chook, Little Ladies, The Put up and most lately in Saturday Evening.
Cromer directed Bug and Man from Nebraska, in addition to the 2009 Off-Broadway revival of Our City, and The Band’s Go to on Broadway, for which he received a Tony Award for finest route. He’s at present directing Good Evening, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, at Broadway’s Winter Backyard Theater.
