After an Inconceivably Long Wait, There’s Momentum on The Princess Bride Musical

Musicals based on popular movies are familiar fare on Broadway. What’s unusual is that a movie that seems like such a slam-dunk to adapt as The Princess Bride has yet to make its stage debut—nearly 40 years after hitting theaters, and nearly a decade since the ball finally got rolling on creating its musical version. Well, now there’s an update that’s maybe not “storming the castle” level of excitement, but it’s at least a nugget of hope. Speaking to Variety in a piece framed around their current Broadway release Smash, itself adapted from a TV series, co-writers Bob Martin and Rick Elice were asked for a status update on The Princess Bride musical. “It’s progressing nicely, actually,” Martin said. “t’s been a long journey for that one—almost 10 years now, I believe. But it is progressing with the new composing team. I don’t know if we’re allowed to name them! We can say that we’re doing a substantial workshop at the end of the summer going into fall. We’ve been working on it in vari ... Read full article.