Disney Developing HIDDEN FIGURES as a Stage Musical

Musical Hidden Figures Disney Image Safe about 4 years agoby Jessica Fisher

Disney has announced that they are developing the true historical film Hidden Figures for the stage in a new musical. The company’s theatrical productions department has been working on the adaptation quietly for a few years, but the cast, crew, and dates are yet to be determined.

Deadline reports that the film is, “Loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s nonfiction book of the same title, Hidden Figures chronicled the contributions made by Black female NASA mathematicians who were crucial – if unheralded – to the United States’ Space Race missions of the 1960s.”

The movie was directed by Theodore Melfi, and starred Taraji P. Henson as mathematician Katherine Johnson, and Octavia Spencer, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as NASA supervisor and mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, as well as Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, and Mahershala Ali.

I hope this turns out to be a great production. The movie was so fantastic, and it told such an important story. Do you think this will make a good musical?

Jessica Fisher

I’m Jessica Fisher! I love being a wife and mom, and I love movies and TV. I’m a murderino, and love to travel and write. I love Disney and the beach and stand-up comedy. My favorite things to geek out on are the podcast My Favorite Murder, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mindhunter, Cobra Kai, The Wonder Years, Somebody Somewhere, Shrinking, The Big Door Prize and Severence. My favorite movies are About Time, 50/50, pretty much anything with Jason Segel and/or Paul Rudd, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Dirty Dancing, and so many others. I love the books Little Women and Harry Potter, and all types of biographies. I love writing for GeekTyrant!

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