EXCLUSIVE: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , John Behrendt's 1994 bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is adapted into a new musical by playwright Taylor Mack, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and choreography by Tanya Bierel and Sarah. Whoah. - Directed by Gleby and Rob Ashford.
May 12 and 13 will be reading by invitation in New York.
Mac MacArthur is a fellow Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee ( Best Drama for Gary, the sequel to Titus Andronicus ), perhaps the best-known in 24 decades of popular Broadway musical history .
Ashford is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning director and choreographer whose Broadway credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Frozen, How to Business Success, Promise, Promise, Evita, Thoroughly Modern: Millie, Shrek, Crybaby John Wyatt, Curtains and The Wedding Singer. Film credits include choreography for Disney's Cinderella, Beyond the Sea, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Ted 2, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Peter Pan hosts live television events. And the Sound of Music Live!
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tells the non-fiction story of a famous antique dealer in Savannah, Georgia, who is tried and retried for murder. A fictionalized version of the book was adapted into the 1997 Clint Eastwood film of the same name.
A composer and lyricist, Brown is performing on Broadway in Michael Arden's Parade, starring Ben Platt. Others include The Last Five Years, 13, The Bridges of Madison County and Mr. Saturday Night .
Birla's Broadway credits include the musical Memphis, Cat on a Tin Roof and On the Town. O'Gleby's credits include the hit Broadway musical Shocked and the recent Almost Famous .
Hal Luftig, Craig Hafner and Sherry Wright are developing a new musical adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil .
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