The 1998 coming-of-age teen comedy Can’t Hardly Wait is getting a reimagining within the type of a stage musical. The movie’s co-writer/director Deborah Kaplan introduced a stage musical is within the works based mostly on her and Harry Elfont‘s 1998 cult traditional teen film, which starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Inexperienced and Charlie Korsmo.
She shared the title artwork and tagged the official Instagram profile for Can’t Hardly Wait: The Musical, writing within the caption, “And that’s all I’m in a position to say @canthardlywaitthemusical #comingsoon.”
Kaplan instructed Deadline that she and Elfont are “principally benevolent godparents watching from the sidelines” on the upcoming manufacturing.
The musical “follows a gaggle of highschool seniors on the eve of commencement, as they navigate the ending of this chapter of their lives at a classmates’ home celebration. What’s going to the longer term carry? That may be a query for an additional day.”
Can’t Hardly Wait: The Musical will likely be directed by Kate Sullivan (Nineteen, Grease Reside!, Lease: Downtown LA) and written by Sinead Daly (Amazon’s The Summer time I Turned Fairly, Netflix’s Soiled John) with preparations and orchestrations by Jesse Vargas (Glory Days, The Ritz). The musical is produced by Michael Barra and Allison Bressi of Energetic McCabe Leisure, in addition to Natalia Nastaskin and Ramon Villa of Major Wave Music.
The rating will function some iconic hits of the late ’90s and early 2000s, major from the Major Wave and Sony Music Publishing Catalogs. I owned the soundtrack to this film, and it was in heavy rotation again within the late 90s.
Barra, CEO of Energetic McCabe, mentioned of the mission:
“Can’t Hardly Wait has grown to turn out to be a cult hit for 3 generations of movie audiences and it has lengthy been a dream of ours to adapt it for a broad theatrical viewers. We’re grateful to Deb and Harry and our associates at Columbia Footage for entrusting us with this iconic property, and are so wanting ahead to once more collaborating with our companions at Major Wave to contribute to its legacy.”
Natalia Nastaskin, Chief Content material Officer of Major Wave Music, added:
“The teenager rom-com narrative of Can’t Hardly Wait is relatable, enjoyable, and heart-warming. We’re thrilled to work with Kate, Sinead, Jesse and the Energetic McCabe staff and produce our huge catalog of hits to energy the soundtrack of this timeless story.”
The unique 1998 romantic comedy adopted six highschool seniors at their grad evening home celebration, the place Preston Meyers (Embry) plans to present his very long time crush (Hewitt) a love letter after their probability encounter 4 years earlier than.
Your entire solid of Can’t Hardly Wait boasts an all-star ensemble of the period’s younger Hollywood, together with Selma Blair, Jason Segel, Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry O’Connell, Donald Faison, Jaime Pressly, Clea DuVall, Leslie Grossman, Breckin Meyer, Sara Rue, Sean Patrick Thomas, Amber Benson, Marisol Nichols, Joel Michaely and Jennifer Elise Cox.
The film served as Kaplan and Elfont’s directorial debut earlier than they went on to helm Josie and the Pussycats (2001), in addition to the exhibits Mary + Jane (2016) and Liza on Demand (2018-2021).
