EXCLUSIVE: John Tiffany’s stage musical adaptation of award-winning 2018 characteristic Wild Rose might be headed to the London’s West Finish, following its critically acclaimed debut in Edinburgh.
Faye Ward of Fable Footage, who produced the unique movie, lead theatre producer Patrick Daly at Caledonia Productions and Gavin Kalin at Completely Theatre Productions, who can be a producer on the present, are in negotiations for a West Finish run.
Ward, who’s govt producer on the stage manufacturing with Nia Janis of Playful Productions, revealed the West Finish plans to Deadline on the fringes of the SCAD Lacoste Movie Competition in France in June.
“Talks are underway, and the hope is that we will convey it too London within the not-too-distant future,” she mentioned.
The stage manufacturing debuted earlier this 12 months with a critically acclaimed, prolonged six-week run on the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, which broke field workplace data for the venue.
Tony and Olivier-award-winning theater director Tiffany beforehand loved success within the West Finish with Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one, which received 9 Oliviers in 2017 earlier than heading to Broadway the place it clinched six Tony Awards.
Tiffany’s different credit embrace the James Bond-inspired, Barbara Broccoli-produced As soon as, which performed on Off-Broadway and Broadway, profitable the Drama Desk Award for Excellent Director of a Musical in addition to Tony and Obie awards.
The unique Wild Rose characteristic, written by Nicole Taylor and directed by Tom Harper, starred Jesse Buckley as protagonist Rose-Lynn Harlan, an aspiring nation music singer and single mom of two from Glasgow who’s just lately out of jail.
After world premiering at Toronto in 2018, the movie went on to clinch a slew of awards and nominations at dwelling and internationally, together with Finest Actress within the Bafta Scotland Awards and Eire’s IFTA awards in addition to Finest Track on the Critics Alternative Awards for “Glasgow (No Place Like Dwelling)”.
Buckley’s function was performed by Daybreak Sievewright within the stage model, with different forged members together with Blythe Duff as Rose-Lynn’s mom and Janet Kumah as Susannah, a an prosperous lady who hires Rose-Lynn as cleaner and turns into an sudden champion of her abilities.
Ward, whose credit additionally embrace Stan & Ollie, Rocks and Suffragette, was chatting with Deadline after a retrospective screening of Wild Rose on the SCAD Lacoste Movie Competition.
She accompanied the movie with a Q&A alongside UK producer Alison Owen (Suffragette, Saving Mr. Banks) concerning the artwork of manufacturing.
“It appears like a superb time to be exhibiting it once more given the recent curiosity within the movie following the stage manufacturing,” she mentioned.
Fable Footage, during which Sony Footage Tv has a minority stake, has just lately loved success with two time Bafta-award-winning TV drama Mr Loverman, which was just lately acquired by BritBox for the U.S.
