EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players prevailed in an auction for Quinceanerx, an original pitch for a musical that Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan and Enchanted) will direct with script by Alvaro Garcia Lecuona, who is writing What If for Billy Porter to direct at Orion.Here’s the logline for a musical that sounds as original as it is inclusive.
Xavier is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns. In a world where everyone sees them as male, including their mom, a traditional celebration of femininity like quinceanera means everything to this 14 year old and a female cousin enlisted to help.
Planning in secret, they hatch a roguish plot to switch places and give Xavier the celebration they deserve. The plan is complicated by fretting Latina
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