By The 1998 teen coming-of-age comedy “Can’t Hardly Wait” is becoming a stage musical.
The film’s co-writer/director Deborah Kaplan used social media to announce a stage musical is in the works based on her and co-writer/co-director Harry Elfont’s film which starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green and Charlie Korsmo.
In her post, she shared the title art and tagged the official profile for the production which will be called: “Can’t Hardly Wait: The Musical”. She adds to Deadline that she and Elfont are “mostly benevolent godparents watching from the sidelines”.
The musical follows a group of seniors at Huntington Hillside High School on the eve of graduation. They must navigate the ending of this chapter of their lives at a classmates’ house party. What will the future bring? That is a question for another day.
The film was an ensemble piece, but a key storyline was Preston Meyers (Embry) planning to give his long time crush (Hewitt) a love letter after their chance encounter four years before.
It was also stacked with young Hollywood talent with supporting roles including 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 musical’s score will feature iconic hits of the late 1090s and early 2000s, the numbers coming from the Primary Wave and Sony Music Publishing Catalogs. The musical will be directed by Kate Sullivan and written by Sinead Daly, with arrangements and orchestrations by Jesse Vargas.
Source: Deadline
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