A new musical version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is now in development after a 26-year battle to acquire the stage rights to the 1945 novel which was made into a 1947 film starring Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney directed by Hollywood legend Joseph Mankiewicz.
Announcing the project, director Kenneth Hoyt said: “I have known all these years that there is a lush and sweeping musical lurking in the pages of the novel. It is a period piece yes, and I do think it holds a sort of classicism in its DNA, but at its heart it is a love story, albeit a haunted one.
“I have never understood the idea of an ‘old fashioned’ romance. Romance doesn’t go out of style. I’m excited and very thankful to be part of any adaptation based on this lovely novel. It has an illustrious history and a stage version seems a natural fit.”
Further creatives and details of the project will be announced at a later date.
Written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R.A. Dick, the novel The Ghost and Mrs Muir tells the story of a ghostly romance between the newly widowed Lucy Muir and the ghost of the sea captain Daniel Gregg. As well as the 1947 film, the original novel has been adapted for radio performances a number time and inspired a US TV series which ran from 1968 until 1970 with Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare in the leading roles.
Angela Thomas
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