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Pink Floyd The Wall on Broadway - update

Written by Matt

Wednesday, 04 August 2004

This morning's edition of various publications, including The Hollywood Reporter, talk about the deal that has just been struck to bring Pink Floyd's seminal album The Wall, created by Roger Waters, to the theatre stage in New York City's Broadway.

They report that Miramax Films has pacted with Casablanca Records head Thomas Mottola to develop and produce a Broadway musical based on the rock opera. Roger Waters will write the Broadway show's book and arrange and orchestrate music for the stage production.

The project has been in the making for some time now - Roger has long wanted to bring it to the stage, and lighten the tone of at least some of the story. It has provided him with a distraction on long, boring flights over the years; Roger has been taking a notebook onto planes to work on the musical and refine it into an entertaining and accessible work for the general public, who might not even have heard the album.

We understand that the aim is to open the production within the next 12-18 months, and that it will include not just music from "The Wall", but other Pink Floyd songs as well as new music. As yet, these other songs have not been specified.

Rights on the project were sold by Waters to Miramax and Mottola, the former Sony Music head and founder of the management and production shingle the Mottola Co. Mottola initiated the "Wall" deal, bringing Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein into the fold. Weinstein has experience as a producer on Broadway, having been credited on shows like "The Producers," "Gypsy" and Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme." He also is bringing another rock 'n' roll project to Broadway with "All Shook Up."

Weinstein will oversee production on "The Wall" for Miramax along with VP of business and legal affairs Timothy Schmidt, and director of creative affairs Heidi Herman.

"I am thrilled to be involved with bringing 'The Wall' to Broadway and to give new generations the opportunity to see this legendary show," Weinstein told the Hollywood Reporter. "I am also delighted to be working with music geniuses Tommy Mottola and Roger Waters, who are sure to make the music rock again."

Said Mottola: "There are few projects as timeless as 'The Wall.' Even after two decades since its first release, 'The Wall' continues to break through every generational, socioeconomic and political boundary. When I first thought of bringing this event to Broadway, I knew I could not do it without the visionary talents of Roger Waters and of course my dear friend Harvey Weinstein and the wealth of experience of his Miramax team."

Said Waters of the planned Broadway show, "Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie."

As more detail becomes available (including dates and the venue) we will of course bring them to you.