(OK, I’m only reporting this because I thought of the headline, but that’s how the tabloids do it, right?)
Apparently producers have raised $8 million of the $16 million needed to bring a musical version of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to Broadway. There is also, of course, a film version from Dreamworks in the offing.
Adding a bit of interest to this story is that apparently some of the investors in a previous round of fundraising were fictional, leading to an arrest.
Read more at Playbill.com and the LA Times.
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I love this title!!!! Thanks 🙂
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A musical Rebecca!! The mind boggles!
(Great title though…)
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I’ve been reading about this, the trials and tribulations of getting this musical to the stage. And I’m in the same camp of “mind boggling” at the prospect of it. I just have the feeling it’s going to lose something in translation. But if it happens, I’ll wanna go see it!
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