Prince’s music is becoming a stage musical — eventually.
Producer Orin Wolf announced Monday that he is developing a stage version of “Purple Rain” — the 1984, vaguely autobiographical film that made Prince a megastar and won him an Oscar for Best Original Song Score. In the film version, Prince starred as The Kid, an emerging musician on the Minneapolis rock scene.
Wolf’s credits include the Tony Award-winning “The Band’s Visit” — another movie-turned-musical. He has already enlisted playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to write the new musical’s book; Jacobs-Jenkins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for his plays “Gloria” and “Everybody.” Also on board is director Lileana Blain-Cruz, a Tony Award nominee for “The Skin of Our Teeth” at Lincoln Center.
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