00:00A 10 Things I Hate About You musical is headed to Broadway,
00:03and the creative team behind the project includes Carly Rae Jepsen and Lena Dunham.
00:09The stage adaptation of the 1999 teen romantic comedy will be scored by Call Me Maybe singer
00:15Jepsen and Ethan Gruska, and it will be based on a book by girl star Dunham and veteran playwright
00:21and librettist Jessica Huang. The direction and choreography will be done by Christopher Wilden,
00:26with musical arrangements and orchestrations to come from Tom Kitt.
00:30Jepsen shared this photo on Instagram with the caption,
00:33I can tell you 10 things I'm excited about right now, or just skip to number 1,
00:37which is working on this dream project with this dream team.
00:41The original movie, loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew play,
00:44was a breakout film for stars Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. Ledger played Patrick,
00:49the bad boy heartthrob who is paid to pursue the rebellious, hard-headed cat played by Stiles as part of a plot.
00:55I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
00:59But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close. Not even a little bit. Not even at all.
01:06The cast also included Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Allison Janney.
01:10The movie was also adapted as an ABC Family series that aired from 2009 to 2010.
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