Closed workshop announced for new musical adaptation of fantasy novel REINCARNATION BLUES
First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try?
A reading of new musical Reincarnation Blues, adapted from the cult-hit fantasy novel by Michael Poore, will take place tomorrow (24 April) at The Other Palace Studio, it has been announced.
The reading is directed by Olivier Award-nominee Amy Hodge and led by Broadway star Noah Ricketts (The Great Gatsby, Frozen, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) and Carly Bawden (Sylvia, Carousel, Romantics Anonymous), along with Wendy Mae Brown, Keisha Amponsa Banson, Josie Benson, Olly Dobson, Billy Cullum, Ahmed Hamad, and Luke Latchman.
Featuring a score by acclaimed touring musicians Ben Thornewill (lead singer of Jukebox the Ghost and Coyle Girelli (multi-platinum songwriter for BTS and more plus lead singer of The Chevin), and with a book by award-winning playwright Laura Zlatos (Happily After Ever), Reincarnation Blues is a fantastically whimsical, mystical, comical and deeply human tale of a soul who is reincarnated through 10,000 lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.
The musical is currently being developed for future stage productions in New York and London.