Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s Tony- and Grammy-nominated couple Andy Karl and Orfeh have acquired the rights to Eric Bernat’s 2016 mystery novel The Dancer.
The deal marks the duo’s first collaboration with Michael Moore Agency, the theater and literary agency run by Michael Moore (not the filmmaker) and Kevin Pope.“We are beyond excited to be collaborating with Eric to bring his novel to the screen,” said the couple in a joint statement, adding, “We’ve been thinking of ways to help stories get told and ten pages into The Dancer, we knew this project was for us.”Set around 1985 in New York City against the backdrop of the growing AIDS epidemic, The Dancer follows Joey, a man who becomes the focus of a.
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