I kid you not! “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” a jukebox musical inspired by rap
icon Tupac Shakur, will hit Broadway this year.
“Holler,” the gritty slice of urban life will be the
first out of the gate, when it begins performances on May 26, 2014, before
officially opening at the Palace Theatre on June 19, 2014.
Seriously, a TUPAC musical! WTF?!
“Holler” will lean heavily on Shakur’s music and lyrics,
but the show will not be a biography about the late rapper’s rise to the top of
the charts. Instead it will tell a different story about street-life, producers
said. Shakur died in 1996 from multiple gunshot wounds he received in a Las
Vegas drive-by-shooting. :(
Kenny Leon (“A
Raisin in the Sun”) will direct the show, while Todd Kreidler (“Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner“) will write the book. The rapper’s mother, Afeni Shakur, is
one of the show’s producers.
Casting for the production will be announced at a later
date.
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