Adam Zotovich will executive produce the Broadway musical. 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.
Read Also Kajol gets trolled for celebrating 26 years of DDLJ while Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan’s bail is rejected Music director duo Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani will serve as composers, while Tony and Emmy winner Rob Ashford will choreograph with associate choreographer Shruti Merchant. Based on an original story by Chopra, the musical will feature book and lyrics by Laurence Olivier Award-winner Nell Benjamin of "Legally Blonde" and "Mean Girls" fame. The DDLJ - Musical", the Broadway show will be produced by helmed by Chopra's production venture. The romance drama, which released on October 20, 1995, propelled its lead stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol to stardom and made them one of the most loved onscreen pairs. "I'm a hardcore cinema guy, I have never done theatre in my life and here I am trying to pull off the craziest ambition of my life," he said in a note shared with the media.īacked by Chopra's production house, "DDLJ", as it came to be known by, is considered one of the landmark films in Indian cinema.
The filmmaker is "terribly nervous and incredibly excited" about the Broadway musical and he feels "23 again (the same age I was when I directed DDLJ)".