‘Ali’ Musical Heads To Boxing Icon’s Louisville Birthplace For Pre-Broadway World Premiere
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Broadway-bound Ali musical, based on the life of three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, will have its world premiere in the late sports superstar’s birthplace in Louisville, Kentucky in Fall 2024, Deadline can reveal.
Richard Willis, the show’s lead producer, told me that Ali will float “like a butterfly” into the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts for a three- or four-week run.
An opening date hasn’t been set yet but it’s likely to be in October or early November next year. Deadline broke the news about the musical in September last year.
Willis was speaking to Deadline in London where he was reuniting with Ali director and book writer Clint Dyer (Othello, Death of England plays), who serves as deputy artistic director of London’s National Theatre, and composer Teddy Abrams, the music director and conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. “It’s a show about one of the world’s greatest showmen.
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