![]() ![]() “We had these two projects both moving forward and after 22 years I was really excited about the possibility of starting my own company,” Vollack told The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive interview. Vollack spent more than two decades with Sony Pictures Entertainment, heading up worldwide music while also building a theater division for the studio: Columbia Live Stage. The show is being spearheaded by the prestigious team of choreographer-director Christopher Wheeldon, a celebrated star of the ballet world who successfully made the leap to Broadway musical theater with An American in Paris in 2015 and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage ( Ruined, Sweat), who is penning the book. The second project is the Michael Jackson musical formerly titled Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, which lifts songs from one of the most successful catalogs in pop history and seems sure to stoke the ongoing debate over how to separate an artist’s creative legacy from his or her controversial personal life. 'The Great Gatsby' Musical to Open on Broadway in April Directed by Jeremy Herrin and featuring an original score by composer Tom Kitt, who co-wrote the lyrics with Crowe, the musical drew rave reviews and record-breaking box office this fall in its pre-Broadway tryout at San Diego’s Old Globe. ![]() The first is Cameron Crowe‘s stage version of his beloved semiautobiographical film from 2000, which tracked the rookie music journalist’s mind-expanding time on the road as a teenager with a rock band and its entourage in the 1970s. For a newly formed company developing its first slate for Broadway, Lia Vollack Productions is not starting small, readying 2020 bows for two potentially massive shows with Almost Famous and MJ the Musical. ![]()
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