24-04-2025
'10 Things I Hate About You' Adaptation Is Officially Headed to Broadway
Twenty-six years after captivating fans in theaters nationwide, the cult classic romantic comedy 10 Things I Hate About You is officially headed to Broadway. What's more, the upcoming musical will be produced by the winning partnership of Lena Dunham and Carley Rae Jepsen, the latter of whom will provide the main soundtrack to the show.
The 39-year-old Jepsen recently took to Instagram to announce the news to her fans. "I can tell you 10 things I'm excited about right now or just skip to number one which is working on this dream project with this dream team! #10ThingsMusical," Jepsen's social media post read.
Debuting in theaters in the spring of 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You focuses on the high school romance between a socially awkward teenager (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a popular fellow student (Larisa Oleynik), the latter of whom is forbidden from dating until her older, easily irritable sister (Julia Stiles) starts seeing someone romantically first.
To work around this, the teens hatch a plan to recruit a rebellious bad boy (Heath Ledger) to woo the older sister, freeing them to develop their own romantic connection with one another.
Based on William Shakespeare's immortal comedy The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About has gone on to earn acclaim as one of the defining teen comedies of the late 1990s. Providing breakthrough performances for provided Ledger, Gordon-Levitt, and Stiles, the film has continued to garner warm reviews with each passing decade, even providing the basis for a short-lived TV reboot in 2009 on ABC.
Jepsen will work with her regular collaborator Ethan Gruska in penning a score for the musical, while Lena Dunham of HBO's Girls fame will co-write the project with playwright Jessica Huang. The musical will be directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, best known for his recent work in MJ: The Musical and An American in Paris.
