It's A Wonderful Life - Paul McCartney, Lee Hall

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Paul McCartney writes first musical, stage version of It's a Wonderful Life

He has written perhaps the greatest canon of pop music, collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello to Rihanna, and even soundtracked a video game, but at 77, Paul McCartney is ticking off another career first: writing a musical.



His first stage musical is to be an adaptation of Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, and will open late in 2020. McCartney will write music and lyrics for the project. Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot and screenwriter for the recent Elton John biopic Rocketman, is also writing lyrics, and the show’s book.

Sounds great!

The musical was initiated by Bill Kenwright

Oh.

[duncan]

Macca hasn't written anything approaching listenable in 35 years, not for me.

[BurlyBeaR]

Bill Kenwright producing. So that’s..erm... nice.

What annoys me about this sort of thing is that it will never be allowed to fail even if it’s utter rubbish.

[Someone in a tree]

I love the film. Such a tear jerker.

I can think of at least two other musicals and an opera, good luck with this adaption.

[horton]

Will Kenwright allow this to be anything other than maudlin dross?

[BurlyBeaR]

Jul 18, 2019 7:41:41 GMT horton said:

Will Kenwright allow this to be anything other than maudlin dross?

Probably set it in Liverpool 

[theatreian]

Not that it did much harm for Blood Brothers!!

[Seriously]

Shall we just presume Actor-Muso?

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets a banjo...."

[xanady]

I am intrigued by this idea.Could be really special.We will have to wait and see....

[longinthetooth]

Jul 18, 2019 15:31:41 GMT Seriously said:

Shall we just presume Actor-Muso?

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets a banjo...."

... and a medley by Wings"

[longinthetooth]

Sorry, Seriously, I meant to quote you and add ... "and a medley by Wings", not to make it look like your quote. Techie failure on my part.

[theatrenerd]

Was thinking about this recently, as it was kind of big news at the time.

Do we think it still could happen?