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The tender love story that became a breakout screen vehicle for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, 'The Notebook,' will be adapted as a Broadway musical, to be produced by Kevin McCollum and Kurt Deutsch in association with Nicholas Sparks.

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00:00It wasn't over. It still isn't over.

00:06Romantics unite and grab those tissues because the ultimate Hollywood tearjerker is

00:10moving from the screen to the stage.

00:122004's The Notebook, which starred Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams and was based on the

00:16book by Nicholas Sparks, will be adapted as a Broadway musical to be produced by

00:20Kevin McCollum and Kurt Deutch in association with the author.

00:24Indie folk pop artist Ingrid Michaelson is writing the original score.

00:28The film version starred Gosling and McAdams as a young couple who fall in love but are

00:31kept apart by barriers of wealth and class. Their story is recounted years later by an

00:36elderly man, played by James Garner, to Gina Rowlands as a fellow nursing home resident

00:40with dementia. The romantic drama grossed $81 million domestically and an additional

00:45$34.6 million worldwide. A timeline has not yet been established for the stage

00:49adaptation of the film.

00:51When I first heard about The Notebook potentially being turned into a musical, I was

00:55instantly drawn to the idea, said playwright Becca Brunstetter, who is developing the show.

00:59The story hits home for me in two big ways. It takes place in my home state of North Carolina,

01:04and Alzheimer's runs deep in my family.

01:07What do you want? What do you want?

01:10It's not that simple.

01:11What do you want?

01:13Meanwhile, Deutch is the founder of recording

01:15Leibelskaboom and Ghostlight Records, as well as SVP of theatrical and catalogue development

01:20for Warner Chappell Music Publishing. And for his part, McCollum's extensive Broadway credits

01:25include the Tony-winning musicals Rent, In the Heights and Avenue Q.

01:30He is currently working with Steven Spielberg on the West Side Story remake and is in

01:34development with Fox Stage Productions on musicals based on The Devil Wears Prada and Mrs. Doubtfire.

01:39To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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