Cameron Crowe’s Film ‘Almost Famous’ Is Being Adapted for Broadway

In 2000, Cameron Crowe received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Almost Famous, a film loosely based around his experiences as a rock journalist. Featuring an incredible time capsule of a soundtrack, an award-winning performance by actress Kate Hudson, and a bunch of delightful cameos, Almost Famous took the fast-track to our hearts and film collections.

Now, director/writer Cameron Crowe has revealed to social media a brief glimpse of the innards of what appears to be Almost Famous: The Musical. The video of composer Tom Kitt performing at the piano is bookended by a glimpse at a scrappy story board, where plot points and songs from Almost Famous are organized on pieces of paper according to a system Cameron Crowe and team can understand.

The musical adaptation of Almost Famous has been a project of Crowe’s for a couple of years now. “I remember the first day of filming Almost Famous,” the director and writer recalls for Rolling Stone now. “We were standing in downtown San Diego, shooting a scene with Phillip Seymour Hoffman on the very same street where I’d first met Lester Bangs. It felt surreal. It felt like a miracle. I called a friend of mine and said, ‘How did I get here?’ He laughed and said, ‘Enjoy it, this won’t happen again.’ The current miracle is that the feeling is coming alive again.”

According to Rolling Stone, Jeremy Herrin (People, Places and Things) will direct the show. With Crowe’s book, the music will be by Tom Kitt (American Idiot, Next to Normal) and lyrics by Kitt and Crowe. No further information on when or where the musical will premiere has been announced at this time.

“It doesn’t even feel like work,” Crowe continues to RS. “It feels like a new adventure, a natural progression but still true to the question that started it all. ‘What do you love about music?’. Can’t wait to bring it to you in the coming months.”