Cameron Crowe‘s Oscar-winning 2000 film, Almost Famous, is being adapted into a new stage musical. According to Rolling Stone, the production has been in development for the last couple of years and is expected to hit Broadway “in the near future.”
After Crowe posted a video of composer Tom Kitt performing at the piano, it’s been confirmed that the American Idiot composer penned the original music for the upcoming production. Alongside Crowe’s stage book, Jeremy Herrin (People, Places and Things) will be the production’s director.
Almost Famous, the movie, is set in 1973 and chronicles the start of a 15-year-old journalist’s career in music, specifically his first assignment for Rolling Stone magazine, in which he fakes his age in order to go on tour with a band that’s about to enter the peak of their career. The storyline itself is a fictionalized version of Crowe’s own experience writing for the same publication as a teenager in the early 1970s.
“I remember the first day of filming Almost Famous,” Crowe recalled to Rolling Stone. “We were standing in downtown San Diego, shooting a scene with Phillip Seymour Hoffman on the very same street where I’d first met Lester Bangs [who Hoffman plays in the scene]. It felt surreal. It felt like a miracle. I called a friend of mine and said, ‘How did I get here?’ He laughed and said, ‘Enjoy it, this won’t happen again.’ The current miracle is that the feeling is coming alive again.”
While details remain unconfirmed as to where or when the production will make its debut, Crowe does profess his commitment by saying that “it doesn’t even feel like work.” He continues, “It feels like a new adventure, a natural progression but still true to the question that started it all. ‘What do you love about music?’. Can’t wait to bring it to you in the coming months.”
Take a peek at the video Crowe posted of Tom Kitt performing at the piano in preparation of the new musical:
— Cameron Crowe (@CameronCrowe) September 21, 2018
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