The countdown to Broadway is on for Carly Rae Jepsen and Lena Dunham’s musical reimagining of 10 Things I Hate About You. The stage adaptation of the beloved 1999 teen movie will begin performances Aug. 17, 2027, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Jepsen is collaborating with Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Ethan Gruska on the musical’s score, while Dunham is writing the book with playwright Jessica Huang. The production is being directed and choreographed by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Wheeldon, with two-time Tony- and Grammy-winner Tom Kitt serving as music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator.
Casting, theater and additional production details have not yet been announced.
The project takes one of the most enduring teen movies of the late ’90s and gives it a distinctly pop musical makeover. The original 10 Things I Hate About You, which starred the late Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik, itself transplanted Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew into a Seattle-area high school, following sisters Kat and Bianca Stratford as they navigate parental rules, romance and the social minefield of adolescence.
As previously reported, “Call Me Maybe” hitmaker Jepsen’s next album is Day and Night, a sprawling 24-track double album featuring 12 songs for the daylight hours and 12 for after dark. It will be released Sept. 18 through Interscope.
