Add another title to the long list of movies getting the musical makeover treatment.
The 2007 release, August Rush, which starred Freddie Highmore as an orphaned second-generation music prodigy who runs away from his foster home to find his parents, has been adapted for the stage by Glen Berger and Mark Mancina.
'August Rush' & More Nominated for 2008 Best Original Song Oscar
Producers Southpaw Entertainment and CJ E&M announced on Tuesday (Nov. 25) that the Broadway-bound project will have a closed-door developmental industry presentation in New York on Dec. 9-10, directed by John Doyle. A Tony winner for the 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd, Doyle is currently represented on New York stages by the off-Broadway revival of the rarely produced Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Allegro.
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