Breaking Baz: Beloved Jennifer Garner Rom-Com ‘13 Going On 30’ Adapted As Stage Musical Set For 2025 UK Opening With Hopes For West End & Broadway
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Fink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30?
That was two decades ago. Now that role’s being played by West End star Lucie Jones in a stage musical adapted from the beloved 2004 movie.
The show is headed for an out-of-town-tryout at the Manchester Opera House, where it will run for a limited season from September 21, 2025.
Just this past April, Garner joined fellow stars from the film — Mark Ruffalo, who played Matt Flamhaff, the boy next door who Jenna doesn’t realize holds a candle for her, and Judy Greer as Lucy Wyman, once her childhood nemesis and now an editing colleague at the fictional Poise magazine — for a 20th anniversary reunion on Zoom that spread far and wide on social media.
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