Eurythmics star Dave Stewart has partnered with soul sensation Joss Stone to bring best-selling novel ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ to the stage, with the pair co-penning its original music and lyrics.
The show, inspired by Audrey Niffenegger’s tome and the New Line Cinema film screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin will premiere in the UK in late 2021/early 2022.
With a book by Lauren Gunderson and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, the production will be directed by Bill Buckhurst, with musical supervision and arrangement by Nick Finlow and illusions by Chris Fisher.
‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ tells the story of lovers Claire and Henry – who is often and uncontrollably ripped out of time, because he suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him into his past or future, vanishing before one’s eyes, never knowing where or when he’s going next.
Except he knows he’ll always come back to Clare, whether she’s 5 years old playing in a field or 85, dreaming of her time-travelling husband.
“We have been on many crazy adventures together but we’ve never ‘Time Travelled’ till meeting Lauren Gunderson,” say Dave and Joss.
“Writing these songs together whilst being in different locations on different time zones has been a trip (literally), throwing us into an eddy of emotive melodies and heart-wrenching lyrics to go with the push and pull of this unusual love story.
“We all time travel in our relationships and in our lives in general, but to write something that people will see and hear happening live on stage is thrilling to imagine, and hearing Bill Buckhurst’s interpretations of Lauren’s script for stage as we went along has been so inspiring.”
‘The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical’ will be produced by Colin Ingram for InTheatre Productions, by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.
