John Mellencamp & Stephen King to bow musical next year  

The pair have been working on the show for eleven years and have finally scheduled an opening night for April next year at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA.

Created in the style of another writing legend, Tennessee Williams, it’s described as ‘a Southern-Gothic work” and is based on a true story John [seen here] wanted to create for the stage in the spirit of the great Mr. Williams.

One of Williams’ most famous plays is ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ Two of the main characters, Blanche DuBois and her sister Stella live in a house called Belle Reve. So in homage to their hero the two men set their story in a fictional Mississippi town called ‘Lake Belle Reve.’

The plot concerns the death of two brothers and how that haunted the play’s leading man, Joe McCandless for the last forty years. The two lost souls are now ghosts in a cabin to which Joe brings his own sons who seem determined to repeat this sad page of history themselves.

And the lineage on the play sounds first class – The music and lyrics are by John, the musical direction is by T Bone Burnett and the original story is by Mr. King.

The play was due to open in mid-2009 but got held up by script problems. It’s now set for April 4th of next year and should run for six weeks.

But if you can’t make the dates, don’t be concerned  – When Stephen released ‘The Dark Tower’ in 1982 his publishers allowed an ‘extra large’ run of 500,000 copies. It has since sold 36-million.

Once his fans hear of the play an extension of dates is equally likely.

Would you like to go?

source - hotmommagossip