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Exclusive: The musical adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt’s bestselling nonfiction tale of murder and moss-covered secrets in Savannah, Ga, will debut on Broadway in 2025 following an extended premiere run in Chicago, producers announced today.

Written by Taylor Mac, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, choreography by Tanya Birl-Torres (How I Learned What I Learned) and direction by Rob Ashford (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Midnight is set in Savannah, where the eccentric Southern charm and polite smiles hide secrets and mysteries, the latest involving wealthy antiques dealer and accused murderer Jim Williams. A sensational trial uncovers buried truths “and exposes the fine line between good and evil — which sparks Lady Chablis and other Savannahians to change the city forever.”

The musical, which...

Exclusive: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, John Berendt’s 1994 bestselling book and Pulitzer Prize finalist is being developed into a new musical by playwright Taylor Mac, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, choreography by Tanya Birl and Sarah O’Gleby and direction by Rob Ashford.

An invitation only industry reading will take place May 12 and 13 in New York.

Mac is the MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony Nominee perhaps best known for the critically acclaimed Off Broadway production of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

Ashford is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning director and choreographer whose Broadway credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Frozen, How To Succeed In Business, Promises, Promises, Evita, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek, John Water’s Cry Baby, Curtains, and The Wedding Singer.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Paper Mill Playhouse's world premiere of My Very Own British Invasion with book by Tony award-winner Rick Elice Peter and the Starcatcher. My Very Own British Invasion is produced in association with Hal Luftig, Craig Haffner and Rodney Rigby. My Very Own British Invasion will continue through Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Paper Mill Playhouse 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ.Get a first look at the cast in action below...

Paper Mill Playhouse, recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award, presents the world premiere of My Very Own British Invasion with book by Tony award winner Rick Elice Peter and the Starcatcher. My Very Own British Invasion is produced in association with Hal Luftig, Craig Haffner and Rodney Rigby. My Very Own British Invasion begins performances Tomorrow, Thursday, January 31, 2019, and will continue through Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Paper Mill Playhouse 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ. My Very Own British Invasion is generously supported by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and sponsored by JPMorgan Chase amp Co. Paper Mill Playhouse's 2018-2019 season is proudly sponsored by Investors Bank.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Paper Mill Playhouse's world premiere of My Very Own British Invasion with book by Tony award-winner Rick Elice Peter and the Starcatcher. My Very Own British Invasion is produced in association with Hal Luftig, Craig Haffner and Rodney Rigby. My Very Own British Invasion will begin performances Thursday, January 31, 2019, and will continue through Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Paper Mill Playhouse 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ.

The Broadway revival of Children of a Lesser God doesn’t officially open until the spring, but the cast and crew are already hard at work.

Stars Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff joined producer Nyle Dimarco this week for a producer’s meeting with executive producer Tamar Climan and fellow producers Hal Luftig, Craig Haffner and associate producer Sandy Block.

Ridloff is starring as Sarah (first portrayed by Marlee Matlin in the 1986 film), a young deaf woman working as a janitor at a school for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Jackson stars opposite Ridloff as James, a teacher who...

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Rob Ashford helmed a June reading for Alfred Uhry's musical version of John Berendt's 1994 best selling book Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. Producers Craig Haffner and and Anne Hamburger revealed intentions to take the new musical to London next, prior to a Broadway run. Now according to an Equity casting notice, the same team will helm a New York City workshop for the show on September 15-19.

According to Deadline, Rob Ashford recently helmed a reading for Alfred Uhry's musical version of John Berendt's 1994 best selling book Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. Producers Craig Haffner and and Anne Hamburger revealed intentions to take the new musical to London next, prior to a Broadway run. The cast for the reading included Tony Goldwyn, Leslie Uggams, Peter Cincotti, Jessica Molaskey, Michael Park and Jake Robinson. A workshop is reportedly set for September- casting has not yet been announced.

Exclusive: Chris Columbus is dusting off Creepy Magazine to produce a four-part anthology film, one segment of which he will write and produce. Columbus and 1492′s Michael Barnathan have teamed with Submarine partners and New Comic Company’s principals Dan Braun and Josh Braun, and Sara Feldmann Sheehan to produce the film. The Comic-Con set might remember Creepy as a seminal horror comic magazine that was generated by Warren Publishing from 1964-83. Starting with iconic covers from Frank Frazetta, the magazine’s contributor list ranged from Spider-Man artist Steve Ditko to Bernie Wrightson, Gene Colan, Richard Corben, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood. Horror anthology films are also a throwback, when films like The House That Dripped Blood and Tales From The Crypt were made. This will emulate the set up of those films. Rights to both Creepy and Eerie magazines were acquired by the Brauns with partners Rick Brookwell and...

Producers Aaron Grant, Jana Robbins, Jeremy Handelman, Craig Haffner & Karl E. Held have announced that Tuc Watkins, well known to TV audiences as Bob Hunter on "Desperate Housewives" and as con artist & ladies man David Vickers on ABC's "One Life to Live," for which he won a Soap Opera Digest Award, will play the lead role of Joe White in White's Lies.

The 2009 Edition of Comic-Con gets underway this week at the San Diego Convention Center, promising the biggest pop-culture event of the year.

Fangoria will be there reporting on the action live from the show floor, with constant updates on all the genre panels, announcements, and more - bringing all the latest Sdcc '09 Horror News direct to you right here on Fangoria.com

For those of you planning to attend the 100% Sold-out show, here's a look at what to expect for genre programming on Friday, July 24th, 2009.

10:00-12:30 Warner Bros.— Join WB for a look at their much anticipated slate of upcoming genre films, including Where The Wild Things Are, The Book of Eli, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, and Sherlock Holmes. Hall H 10:30-11:30 Coraline — Visionary director and screenwriter Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman...

Take a look at Friday's schedule for this year's San Diego Comic-Con; it's a solid genre lineup so far, with more on the way!

Friday – July 24

10:00-12:30 - Warner Bros. — Join WB for a look at their much anticipated slate of upcoming genre films, including Where The Wild Things Are, The Book of Eli, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, and Sherlock Holmes. Hall H

10:30-11:30 - Coraline - Visionary director and screenwriter Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman discuss the making of the Laika/Focus Features 2009 breakout animated hit film Coraline. In celebration of Universal Studio's Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD release of the critically acclaimed stop-motion film, Selick and Gaiman will be joined by lead animator and Laika CEO/president Travis Knight, producer Bill Mechanic (CEO of Pandemonium and producer of Dark Water and The New...

"Left Luggage" is clumsily made, but that doesn't hurt its potential for good boxoffice results in specialty markets in the United States and Europe. Female audiences especially should easily identify with the charming main character, a modern teenage girl who grows up while baby-sitting a troubled Chasidic child.

First the bad news: This English-language directorial debut of Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe ("Immortal Beloved") is badly timed and jerkily cut. Too many scenes should have been truncated just before the actors could speak one melodramatic line too many, and either director Krabbe or the poorly motivated script by Edwin de Vries seem to have encouraged the actors to ham it up instead of concentrating on creating credible characters. The technical credits are good, though unpolished.

Here's the good news: Women should like this film. In her first leading role, young Briton Laura Fraser plays Chaja, a "modern" Jewish teenager in 1970s Amsterdam. She's sexually emancipated, has no awareness of any racial discrimination and no patience with her air-headed, cake-baking mother (Marianne Saegebrecht) or with her father (Maximilian Schell), who is obsessed with the past. (He spends the film looking for two suitcases he buried somewhere while fleeing the Nazis.)

Needing money, Chaja gets a job as a nanny for a Chasidic family with their repressive rules, funny clothes and general backwardness. But before she can quit, she falls for the 5-year-old son Simcha (Adam Monty) who, frightened by his overbearing father, refuses to speak. Chaja's relationship with Simcha is warm and funny, and young Monty is even cuter than Fraser, if that's possible.

While Simcha learns to speak, Chaja learns to respect both this unusual family and her Jewish heritage. In the end, Chaja also learns about loss, which brings her full circle -- to an understanding of the Jewish past that formed her family and herself.

Fraser's performance is unfortunately anything but subtle -- she loves rolling those big eyes, grinning, goofing, hamming and generally looking cute.

But what she lacks in accomplishment she makes up for with sheer energy and an impressive big-screen charisma.

Women should be able to put themselves in Chaja's shoes easily, and because the movie is well-meaning, if flawed, the audience will not feel embarrassed about pulling out the handkerchiefs.

LEFT LUGGAGE

A Flying Dutchman/Shooting Star production

in association with Favourite Films and Greystone Films

Credits: Director: Jeroen Krabbe; Producers: Ate de Jong, Hans Pos, Dave Schram; Executive producers: Craig Haffner, Brad Wilson; Co-producers: Dirk Impens, Rudy Verzyck; Associate producers: Maria Peters, Edwin de Vries, Jeroen Krabbe; Screenplay: Edwin de Vries; Based on the novel "The Shovel and the Loom" by: Carl Friedman; Director of photography: Walther van den Ende; Art director: Hemmo Sportel; Editor: Edgar Burcksen; Music: Henny Vrienten; Costume designer: Yan Tax, Bernadette Corstens; Casting: Susie Figgis. Cast: Mrs. Kalman: Isabella Rossellini; Chaja's Father: Maximilian Schell; Chaja's Mother: Marianne Saegebrecht; Mr. Kalman: Jeroen Krabbe; Chaja: Laura Fraser; Simcha: Adam Monty; Concierge: David Bradley; Herr Apfelschnitt: Chaim Topol; Sofie: Heather Weeks. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 96 minutes. Color/stereo.