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EXCLUSIVE: Well, peachy fuckin’ keen! Darren Stein‘s 1999 teen cult classical Jawbreaker is getting nan shape philharmonic curen this autumn successful Los Angeles.
Debuting successful September astatine Hollywood’s Hudson Theatre, Rebecca Gayheart is returning 27 years aft starring successful nan original, for Jawbreaker The Musical, a constricted shop engagement based connected nan movie written and directed by Stein, successful which a group of precocious schoolhouse girls accidentally kills their champion friend successful a day prank gone incorrect and person to screen up nan crime.
Gayheart (Broadway’s Steel Magnolias), who played reluctant celebrated woman Julie Freeman successful nan film, is starring successful nan philharmonic arsenic Principal Sherwood (originated onscreen by Carol Kane). Additional casting will beryllium announced soon.
Returning to nan treacherous halls of Reagan High, Jawbreaker The Musical is described arsenic a high-gloss teen thriller that follows nan rise—and unraveling—of a ruthless clique of teenage girls whose reign of powerfulness takes a deadly turn. Fueled by nan adrenaline of a popular performance and laced pinch biting humor, nan philharmonic explores nan intoxicating—and often dangerous—nature of power, personality and endurance successful a world obsessed pinch status. Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Directed by Matt DiCarlo (The Comedy About Spies) pinch choreography by Jay Jackson (RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Laganja Estranja), nan philharmonic features a book written by Stein, pinch original euphony by Jeff Thomson (Pump Up nan Volume) and lyrics by Jordan Mann (Trails). It’s produced astatine Hudson Theatre by Knot Free Productions.
“It feels correct to motorboat nan philharmonic successful LA wherever nan movie was changeable and I couldn’t beryllium much thrilled pinch nan squad we’ve assembled,” said Stein.
Premiering astatine Sundance successful 1999, Jawbreaker was initially a container agency flop, earlier soon becoming a cult classical for its razor-sharp satire and stylized campy aesthetic. The movie besides stars Rose McGowan, Judy Greer, Julie Benz, Pam Grier, Marilyn Manson and Tatyana Ali.
Stein antecedently debuted a Jawbreaker musical successful 2010, co-written pinch Thomson and Mann, pinch stars for illustration Elizabeth Gillies, Joanna ‘Jojo’ Levesque, Frankie Grande, Kate Flannery and Jenna Leigh Green attached successful various presentations.
