Sara Bareilles is writing the rating for a stage adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel The Interestings.
The present will characteristic a guide by Sarah Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for In the Subsequent Room (or The Vibrator Play) and The Clear Home. The musical is at present in improvement, with extra particulars a couple of manufacturing timeline and extra inventive staff members to return. Matt Ross (Dana H., Is This a Room) is producing.
This marks Bareilles’ second rating for a musical, following her Tony Award-nominated rating for Waitress, which first opened on Broadway in 2016. The singer additionally took on the lead position within the present throughout its run and appeared on Broadway final season in a Tony-nominated flip in Into the Woods.
“I wrote the primary track for The Interestings earlier than I even completed the guide. To borrow a quote from certainly one of our essential characters: I’ve fallen in love…with a group of individuals,” Bareilles mentioned. “Meg Wolitzer’s extraordinary creation, The Interestings, was such a direct and engaging world of humanity and ache and adolescence and remorse. I discovered so many moments that felt like singing. Making this musical has been a conjuring, a deep listening to the themes of the attractive novel and a tremendously energizing inventive dialog with the wild knowledge and infinite expertise of Sarah Ruhl as my collaborator, bringing these new buddies to life in a brand new means. I’m so thrilled to be part of this excellent staff.”
Wolitizer’s novel, printed in 2013, follows a bunch of six youngsters from once they first meet at summer time camp within the Seventies up via their grownup lives. The guide explores their evolving friendship and the way their desires of dwelling inventive lives morph as they age, significantly as they intersect with issues of cash, class and love.
“Sara Bareilles and Sarah Ruhl are each sensible, expansive, electrifying artists whose work I reply to so deeply,” Wolitzer mentioned. “My novel The Interestings is populated by a bunch of characters I nonetheless take into consideration and really miss, and the music they hearken to and play once they’re younger resonates within the guide, so the concept of a musical adaptation is thrilling. To see and listen to Sara’s and Sarah’s interpretation of my novel onstage shall be an absolute pleasure, a novelist’s dream.”
“I’m so thrilled to be adapting this novel, a hymn to craving and being alive, with the goddess-like fount of creativity, Sara Bareilles,” Ruhl mentioned. “Meg’s sensible guide speaks to a few of the largest questions: how can we develop into? How do we all know when our lives are of worth, how do we all know when we have now ‘sufficient’? How do difficult friendships endure? The setting of an arts camp is acquainted to me as a besotted former camper and sings with nostalgia. I can’t wait to share this story of youth and development with an viewers.”