Breaking Baz: BBC And Broadway Eyeing Award-Winning West End Musical ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: BBC commissioning executives are booked to see the award-winning musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge, which opens Wednesday night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its transfer from a sold-out season at the National Theatre.
This column told you a year ago that StudioCanal’s RED Production company is developing the musical into a TV drama series. The TV production will be based on the stage show by playwright Chris Bush and glorious songs from the catalog of singer-songwriter Richard Hawley.
Sources tell me that a deal is strongly favored between RED and the BBC. Bush is writing the screenplay for the series, expanding the storylines for characters they created for the show that originated at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre in south Yorkshire in 2019, having been commissioned by Sheffield Theatres and producer Rupert Lord’s Various Productions.
RED pounced quickly and took out an option on the show at that early stage of the musical’s life. It was a prescient move because since then, Standing at the Sky’s Edge has won the coveted theatre trophy from Melvyn Bragg’s Sky Arts South Bank Show Awards (full disclosure: I was a member of that awards judging panel), the Olivier Award for Best Musical and other top honors.
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