10 Issues I Hate About You, the beloved ’90s rom-com, is being tailored right into a Broadway musical. Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen and Ladies creator and author Lena Dunham are hooked up to write down the present’s rating and e book, respectively, after long-circulating rumors.
Jepsen will co-write the rating with Ethan Gruska, whom she’s labored with on her final undertaking The Loveliest Time. Dunham will co-write the e book with Jessica Huang (The Paper Dream of Harry Chin), reviews Billboard. Mike Bosner is ready to supply the present, having not too long ago helmed the 2022 starchy musical Shucked! and 2014’s jukebox biographical present Stunning — The Carole King Musical.
“I can inform you 10 issues I’m enthusiastic about proper now or simply skip to primary which is engaged on this dream undertaking with this dream staff!” Jepsen wrote on her Instagram.
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Tom Kitt, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Subsequent to Regular, will organize and orchestrate the present. Former New York Metropolis Ballet resident artist Christopher Wheeldon will direct and choreograph, boasting Broadway credit in An American in Paris and MJ: The Musical, each of which received Tonys for Finest Choreography. With unique music by Jepsen and Gruska, it’s too quickly to say if the screen-to-stage adaptation will clear rights to make use of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” however right here’s to hoping.
10 Issues I Hate About You was launched in 1999 as a contemporary tackle the Shakespearean comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, it was a right away success and catapulted the careers of the movie’s three stars. Later, in 2009, 10 Issues was tailored right into a TV sequence for ABC Household however was canceled after one season.
Jepsen’s final album was 2023’s The Loveliest Time, her B-side assortment to 2022’s The Loneliest Time. She’s additionally teased that her subsequent file is on the way in which quickly in a sequence of Instagram posts. Rumor has it that A.G. Cook dinner, Danny L Harle, Casey MQ, Kyle Shearer, and plenty of extra are concerned, although nothing is totally confirmed as of April 2025.
Dunham’s new present, Too A lot, is predicted to premiere on Netflix later this 12 months. It stars Hacks’ Megan Stalter and The White Lotus’ Will Sharpe. Shortly after the success of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Dunham was set to direct a Polly Pocket movie, however dropped out in 2024. “I don’t suppose I’ve that in me. I really feel like the subsequent film I make must really feel like a film that I completely must make… And I did suppose different folks may make Polly Pocket,” she instructed The New Yorker.
Revisit ipromiseyoumedia’s 2022 interview with Carly Rae Jepsen, the place she mentioned the inspirations and behind-the-scenes of The Loneliest Time.
