The Danish Girl is getting the stage treatment.
Benson Drive Productions has begun development on a musical adaptation of the novel, which was later turned into the 2015 Academy Award-winning film, starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. The production will feature book and lyrics by Nora Brigid Monahan (DIVA: Live From Hell), an original score by Alex Parker, musical director for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Entertainment, and direction by Georgie Rankcom, the UK Associate Director of Oh, Mary!
The first private workshop of the project will be held this week. A production timeline has not yet been announced.
The Danish Girl novel and film are loosely inspired by the true life story of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter, transgender woman, and an early recipient of gender-affirming surgery, and her love story with her partner, Gerda Wegener.
The musical adaptation is “an exploration of the legacy left
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