Monday, October 15, 2012

"Memphis" Musical Heads To Big Screen

Alcon Entertainment has won the screen rights to the Tony Award winning musical Memphis says Deadline New York.

It is loosely inspired by the life of a Memphis disc jockey "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. The play revolves around star-crossed lovers living in segregated Tennessee in the 1950s.

Created by Joe Dipietro and David Bryan, Memphis is currently touring the United States through the summer of 2013. Dipietro will write the screen musical adaptation of the hugely popular stage show.

It won the Tony for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Score and Best Orchestration in 2010. The show also won an Emmy Award for its PBS broadcast of the original Broadway production.

Mark Gordon and Molly Smith and are producing the film.

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