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Breaking Baz: Beloved Jennifer Garner Rom-Com ‘13 Going On 30’ Adapted As Stage Musical Set For 2025 UK Opening With Hopes For West End & Broadway
The 2004 Jennifer Garner rom-com ‘13 Going on 30’ is being adapted as a stage musical to hit the UK in 2025. Producers hopes for West End and Broadway runs.
Just this past April, Garner joined fellow stars from the film — Mark Ruffalo, who played Matt Flamhaff, the boy next door who Jenna doesn’t realize holds a candle for her, and Judy Greer as Lucy Wyman, once her childhood nemesis and now an editing colleague at the fictional Poise magazine — for a 20th anniversary reunion on Zoom that spread far and wide on social media. The only number they’ve taken from the movie is one of the signature moments where Garner’s Jenna takes to the dance floor in a skimpy Versace dress and does all the quirky moves to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” “All the songs are original, written by Michael Weiner and Alan Zachary, who did First Date on Broadway, but ‘Thriller’ is the only one we’re sort of parachuting in because it’s such a good, iconic moment from the movie,” explains Greer, who is producing with Revolution Studios, Wendy Federman and Phil Kenny.
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