Industry experts have been treated to workshop presentations of a major new musical based on the life of Bob Marley.
Developed with the backing of the iconic musician’s family and featuring the singer’s most famous tracks, the musical has been written by Lee Hall (Billy Elliot, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour).
Provisionally titled Bob Marley The Musical, the early version of the show which will be directed by Dominic Cooke (Follies, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) was recently presented to an invited audience in London.
The show’s producing team, Playful Productions, Stage Play and Kwame Kwei-Armah are hoping for a 2020 launch for the new show in what would have been Bob Marley’s 75th birthday year.
The Young Vic’s current artistic director, Kwei-Armah’s writing credits include another tribute to Bob Marley, One Love: The Bob Marley Musical which debuted in the US in 2015 (under the title Marley) and premiered in the UK in Birmingham in 2017.
Angela Thomas
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