La La Land being adapted into a Broadway musical

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La La Land is being adapted into a Broadway musical seven years after the release of the hit movie starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.The film stars played an actress and a songwriter who strike up an ill-fated romance while struggling to make it in Hollywood.Now a stage version is headed to the Great White Way under the direction of the acclaimed Bartlett Sher, Variety reports.The movie's songwriting team - composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul - has been reunited for the Broadway adaptation.Hurwitz won the Oscar for best original score Oscar for La La Land, which also saw the trio pick up best original song for City Of Stars.

Broadway bound: La La Land is being adapted into a Broadway musical seven years after the release of the hit movie starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Damien Chazelle won a best director Oscar for La La Land, which netted slew of awards including best actress for Stone.

Bartlett Sher meanwhile earned the best director Tony for a 2008 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic South Pacific.Over the course of a glittering career, he has also helmed new musicals ranging from The Light In The Piazza to Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown.The La La Land screenplay, which was written by Chazelle, is now being adapted for the Broadway version by playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker.Decker has won three Barrymore Awards and Ayad earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 2012 play Disgraced, which tackled such themes as Muslim fundamentalism.Marc Platt, who produced the La La Land movie and whose son Ben Platt has become a Tony-winning actor, is also part of the team behind the Broadway version. 'We’ve assembled a world-class team to create a musical that will.