The members of
post-punk band Blondie are lending their songs to a West
End musical based on the Madonna movie Desperately
Seeking Susan, the musical's producers
announced Tuesday.
The show, adapted
from the 1985 film that helped propel the Material Girl
to fame, is scheduled to open October 12 at the Novello
Theatre in London.
Emma Williams,
24, has been cast as free-spirited New Yorker Susan, the
role that helped to establish Madonna as an icon. Kelly
Price, who recently appeared in the London production
of Guys and Dolls, will play Roberta Glass, the
bored New Jersey housewife (played by Rosanna Arquette in
the film) whose life becomes entangled with Susan's.
The show will
feature Blondie's songs ''Heart of Glass,'' ''Atomic,''
''One Way or Another,'' ''Dreaming,'' and ''The Tide Is
High'' as well as a new composition by front woman
Debbie Harry. The writer is Peter Michael Marino,
whose credits include the 1950s pulp homage Hollywood Nurses.
Harry said she
hoped the show would eventually transfer to Broadway.
''It's a live
show, so it is going to be different to the film, probably
more lighthearted,'' she said.
The low-budget
movie helped make a star of Madonna, who wore her own
clothes to create Susan's era-defining look of leggings,
lacy gloves, hair ribbons, and sunglasses.
Producer Susan
Gallin said the stage show would closely mirror the plot
of the film.
''The story is
universal. It's a quirky, offbeat movie about women who
change their lives and end up with the lives that they were
meant to have,'' she said. (AP)
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