23 stories
Walk Hard (Stage Adaptation)
A parody of musical biopics (jukebox musicals in the case of the stage), where Dewey Cox pursues greatness in the music industry spanning over 60 years.
Merrily We Roll Along
Frank Shephard abandons his friends in pursuit of being a Hollywood producer. The story takes place over the course of 20 years in reverse chronological order.
Bright Star (Film Adaptation)
A young soldier, Billy Cane, returns home after the end of WWII and decides to publish his stories in the Asheville Southern Journal. The editor, Alice Murphy, is drawn to Billy, who inspires her to reconcile with her past and find the child she lost many years ago.
Hamnet (Stage Adaptation)
Agnes, a free-spirit, falls in love with a latin tutor in 1500s England. The two soon marry and have three children, but things take a turn when their son, Hamnet tragically passes away.
Big Fish (Musical)
When Will Bloom finds out his father, Edward is dying of cancer, he attempts to come to an understanding of who his father was, through the stories that he was told.
The Light Between Oceans (remake)
A small island lightkeeper and a local girl fall in love and marry. After suffering two traumatic miscarriages, the couple find a rowboat with baby and raise her as their own. Four years later, the consequences of their decision arise and put their relationship in jeopardy.
Blue Moon (Stage Adaptation)
If Blue Moon was adapted into a play.
The Great Gatsby (Musical)
Gatsby is known for his lavish parties, filled with the glitz of the Jazz Age. However, behind all the extravagance lies a man driven by a single desire: to win back the love of the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. (broadwaygatsby.com)
Fellow Travelers (remake)
After a chance encounter in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Hawkins Fuller and Timothy Laughlin start a volatile romance that spans "the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.
The Greatest Showman (Broadway Adaptation)
Broadway transfer of the upcoming musical adaptation of The Greatest Showman.
If/Then
Elizabeth Vaughn has returned to New York City after her marriage fell apart. She is meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends, and is immediately given a choice. Should Elizabeth (as Beth) join her college friend Lucas in the world of community activism and city planning? Or should Elizabeth (as Liz) join her new neighbor Kate to get coffee and listen to a local band? Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey take the audience through both stories simultaneously, shifting between the worlds of Beth and Liz--and occasionally the two collide. (StageAgent)
Schmigadoon (Stage Adaptation)
Two New York City doctors, Melissa Gimble and Josh Skinner, struggling with their romantic relationship, who find themselves trapped in a magical town similar to the setting of a Golden Age musical, populated by colorful people who frequently break into song. (Wikipedia)
Days Of Wine & Roses
Joe Clay is a rising young public relations executive when he meets Kirsten Arnesen, a pretty secretary, at a business party. Joe and Kirsten are both ambitious, and they are on the road to success when they fall in love and marry. Soon after, however, Joe coaxes Kirsten to begin drinking with him on a regular basis. Eventually, they are both dependent on alcohol. Their marriage deteriorates, and their lives spiral into disaster, as a result.
Love Story
When wealthy Harvard University law student Oliver Barrett IV meets Jenny Cavilleri, a middle-class girl who is studying music at Radcliffe College, it's love at first sight. Despite the protests of Oliver's father, the young couple marry. Oliver finds a job at a legal firm in New York City, but their happy life comes crashing down when it's discovered that Jenny has a terminal illness. Together, they try to cope with the situation as best they can.
Riding In Cars With Boys (Remake)
The fresh, funny, touching and true story of writer Beverly Donofrio (who ages from 15 to 35 in the role), reveals her coming of age in the late 1960s and her whole life colored by an event that happened when she was 15. The events span more than two decades, as the young heroine experiences often-humorous, sometimes-irreverent, but certainly a unique personal journey to make something meaningful of her life. (Google)
Stereophonic
A fictional rock band on the cusp of superstardom as they struggle through recording their new album set from 1976 to 1977.
That Thing You Do! (Stage Musical Adaptation)
A local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager. (IMDB)
Sinatra: The Musical
Sinatra The Musical is set on New Year's Eve 1942 as a 27-year-old Italian-American singer is about to step onto the stage of New York's Paramount Theatre. As Sinatra's career skyrockets, he struggles with balancing the love of his wife, Nancy, against the demands and temptations of his career. When he begins an affair with Ava Gardner, his records stop selling and the press turns against him, but one of the greatest comebacks in showbiz will follow (Playbill)
Splendor In The Grass (remake)
Bud and his high school sweetheart, Deanie, are weighed down by their parents' oppressive expectations, which threaten the future of their relationship. Deanie's mother and Bud's father caution their children against engaging in a relationship, but for opposing reasons: Deanie's mother thinks Bud won't marry a girl with loose morals, while Bud's father is afraid of marriage and pregnancy that would ruin Bud's future at Yale.
Singin' In The Rain (Musical Adaptation)
Set in Hollywood in the waning days of the silent screen era, it focuses on romantic lead Don Lockwood, his sidekick Cosmo Brown, aspiring actress Kathy Selden, and Lockwood's leading lady Lina Lamont, whose less-than-dulcet vocal tones make her an unlikely candidate for stardom in talking pictures. (wikipedia)
