"American Psycho" musical has a creative team

Based on the 1991 best selling novel, "American Psycho" is headed to Broadway. Though there has been talk of this for a while the creative team was just announced. Duncan Sheik, who is coming off Broadway success with Spring Awakening, will create the music and lyrics. The book will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa who is a writer for HBO's Big Love. Still no word on an overall timeline but the project does seem to be headed in the right direction.

So while we're waiting for the new musical why not check out Duncan Sheik in concert when he performs here at the Straz Center, March 26. We hear that he'll be including some songs from Spring Awakening on the set list!

New and interesting Broadway shows in the making ...

Spider Sense is coming to Broadway in 2009. I've been hearing rumor of a Broadway version of Spiderman for some years now. Seems it's firmly slated to go up in 2009. Directed by Julie Taymor (of Lion King fame) and music by Bono and The Edge ... it's sure to be a phenomenon.

And on a much more obscure note -- although no date has been set for opening, the Brett Easton Ellis novel American Psycho is also planning a stage adaptation of this vicious social satire. I have to say, I'm already looking forward to that one.

- summer b