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Musical Adaptation Of Bestseller ‘The Interestings’ In Works With ‘Waitress’ Composer Sara Bareilles And Playwright Sarah Ruhl


Waitress composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl are teaming up on a stage musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling 2013 novel The Interestings. Bareilles …

Wolitzer’s novel, as the official synopsis states, tells the story of six teenagers who meet at summer camp in the 1970s and form a lifelong bond over their shared dream of leading creative and inspiring lives. “To borrow a quote from one of our main characters: I have fallen in love…with a group of people.” Bareilles, a two-time Grammy winner and multiple Tony and Emmy nominee called Wolitzer’s book an “extraordinary creation.” To see and hear Sara’s and Sarah’s interpretation of my novel onstage will be an absolute joy, a novelist’s dream.”

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