SPIKE LEE TO FILM BROADWAY'S 'PASSING STRANGE'
July, 7th 2008
SPIKE LEE TO FILM BROADWAY'S 'PASSING STRANGE' Cameras will roll on three performances later this month for cable TV.
*Broadway's newest sensation, Passing Strange, will reportedly become a Spike Lee joint in the coming months.
EW.com is reporting that the famed filmmaker will shoot three performances of the Tony-nominated musical over a weekend later this month. Two will be filmed with an audience present at the Belasco Theatre, and one without.
Financing for the film will be handled by the musical's producers, according to the Web site. The final version will likely be aired on cable television.
Passing Strange features a Tony Award-winning book and lyrics by Stew and music by Stew and his longtime musical partner Heidi Rodewald of The Negro Problem.
The musical – which opened on Broadway Feb. 28 – incorporates elements of Stew's life to tell the story of a young black bohemian who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbringing in Los Angeles to travel abroad in search of his artistic and personal identity.
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