It’s become depressing how many Broadway musicals aren’t truly original, but start off as movies first, from The Lion King to Kinky Boots. But we can’t say we’re upset to learn that last year’s hit male stripper movie, Magic Mike, will be headed to Broadway as Magic Mike: The Musical, Deadline is reporting.
Talk of a stage musical has been around for a while now, but this week the film’s producer and star, Channing Tatum, officially confirmed that Next to Normal composers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey will write the songs. And now-omnipresent gay scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Glee, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the upcoming Carrie remake) will write the book to the show.
That last bit of news gives us hope. Even the film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, acknowledged that gay men really turned out to make the film a hit. Aguirre-Sacasa could well add a gay subplot to the script. And we can wait to see how they do the penis-pumping scene.
No word yet on whether any cast members from the film will be in the show, or even when the production will make it to the Great White Way, but trust us: We’ll be in line at TKTS as soon as it is.
