Disney Developing HIDDEN FIGURES as a Stage Musical
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?
