‘Magic Mike’ Broadway Musical Confirmed, Sequel in the Works
Get those dollar bills ready because Magic Mike, The Musical is coming to Broadway.
The creative team behind the Broadway musical, which will be based off the film, revealed that the show has been locked down, according to Deadline.
Songs from the musical will be written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning team from Next to Normal. Also joining the creative team is Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who co-wrote the book for Spider Man:Turn Off The Dark and the upcoming American Psycho Musical.
Even though the cast has not been revealed, the production team will be similar from the hit film, which grossed over $167 million worldwide box office sales. Channing Tatum will produce along with the film's director Steven Soderbergh, Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs and Nick Wechsler.
The 2012 film, which starred Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer and Joe Manganiello, followed Tatum's stripper background. "I was broke, a vagabond. I did it because it was fun. We say a line in [Magic Mike], 'It's girls, money, and a good time.' That's all you need for an 18- or 19-year-old. I liked the dancing," Tatum revealed in his Vanity Fair cover story.
Tatum and Carolin, the film's screenwriter, are currently working on a sequel. ''It will be a road trip movie," Tatum said in an interview about the sequel's plot. "It will essentially be the movie that everyone thought the first one was going to be -- crazy and fun and less slice-of-life and less drama. The first one, we had to make not so cheesy and campy; this one we are going to swing for the fences.''
Magic Mike, The Musical will be on Broadway sometime next year.
