It filled me with the same joy and emotions that a good Indian film does. The burst of colours, the heightened drama, the passionate singing, the unabashed dancing, a classic story, a happy end. “It was just not the fact that both use songs to tell the story, it was much more than that, it was the feeling they evoked which was exactly the same. Aditya Chopra said what resonated with him was the fact that the musical theatre was so similar to Indian films. I couldn”t believe that this kind of spectacle could be created live on stage,” he said. “But that day what I saw on stage blew my mind.
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Now, till then, I was a kid who was an avid movie watcher and what I loved the most was big screen Indian blockbusters. “The lights dimmed, the curtains lifted and what unfolded in the next 3 hours left me speechless and stunned. In his note, Aditya Chopra recalled his earliest memory of attending a Broadway show back in 1985 when his filmmaker father Yash Chopra took him and his brother Uday Chopra to their “first musical theatre experience”. A global casting search begins shortly headed by Duncan Stewart of Stewart/Whitley casting and Yash Raj Films casting head Shanoo Sharma, ANI reported. The DDLJ – Musical will be on stage in the Broadway season of 2022-2023, with a world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in September 2022. Adam Zotovich will executive produce the Broadway musical.Ĭome…Fall In Love. Tony winner Derek McLane, who earlier worked on musicals like Moulin Rouge! Hairspray Live! and 33 Variations, will design the set with music supervision by Bill Sherman. Music director duo Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani will be the composers, while Tony and Emmy winner Rob Ashford will choreograph with associate choreographer Shruti Merchant. The DDLJ – Musical, the Broadway show will feature book and lyrics by Laurence Olivier Award-winner Nell Benjamin of Legally Blonde and Mean Girls fame. Made by Yash Raj Films, the romance drama became a landmark film of Indian cinema, making Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol the most loved onscreen couple.