{"id":529598,"date":"2010-04-16T06:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T10:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=100805"},"modified":"2010-04-16T06:55:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T10:55:21","slug":"%e2%80%9cdances-with-wolves%e2%80%9d-broadway-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529598","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDances With Wolves\u201d Broadway Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dances with Wolves<\/em> is hitting the bright lights of Broadway in a new dramatic musical.<\/p>\n

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Acclaimed Broadway producer Matt Murphy has acquired the stage rights to Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning film — which was adapted from the 1986 bestselling novel by Michael Blake — and is in the early stages of bringing the period piece to the Broadway stage.<\/p>\n

“Dances With Wolves will be a uniquely spectacular and dramatic new musical,”<\/em> Murphy told BroadwayWorld.com<\/a> this week. “I envision a score that is inspired by Appalachian, folk, Civil War era, and Native American music, coupled with a production design that celebrates the spirit and ceremony of Native American culture amidst the awe-inspiring landscape of the American frontier I am seeking a creative team who can make the epic story of Dances With Wolves sing for a new medium and a new generation of audiences.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Wolves sweeped the Oscars in 1991, taking home prizes for Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay. Costner played Lieutenant John Dunbar, who became accepted by the Sioux Indians, in the film, which he also directed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dances with Wolves is hitting the bright lights of Broadway in a new dramatic musical. Acclaimed Broadway producer Matt Murphy has acquired the stage rights to Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning film — which was adapted from the 1986 bestselling novel by Michael Blake — and is in the early stages of bringing the period piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}