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Director Liesl Tommy is bringing a new adaptation of Imitation of Life to Broadway. Universal Theatrical Group announced that it will produce the new Broadway musical adaptation alongside John ...

The novel Imitation of Life by Fannie Hurst was originally published in 1933. Universal Pictures produced two film adaptations based on the book: in 1934 directed by John Stahl, starring Claudette ...

Legend has been tapped to write the score to the stage adaptation of the 1933 novel and subsequent films. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Imitation of Life, which originated as a 1933 novel written ...

Lynn Nottage, John Legend and Liesl Tommy jointly said today: “Originally published in 1933, novelist Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life tells the story of two women, one Black and one white, struggling ...

New musical Imitation of Life will premiere Off-Broadway this fall with a score by John Legend. The musical, based on the novel by Fannie Hurst and the Universal Pictures films, will premiere at the ...