I was just profoundly moved by it.
It seared me, she tells EW.
I wrote my agent saying, If the rights are available, I would do anything.'
It left them both with a unique challenge.
For Taichman, it was separating herself from her all-consuming passion for the original movie.
The biggest challenge for me is the depth of my love for the film, she explains.
Theres a process of taking what you know works on film and turning that into a theatrical experience.
My deep, deep, deep love for it is both a gift and a challenge.
Walshs conflict lay more in turning a notoriously tacky era into a piece of art.
How do we actually make this poetic?
How do we make something as gauche and ridiculous as the 1980s feel like a piece of poetry?
It feels like a mix-tape, Walsh says of the structure and score.
Were not as tied down as some musicals are where the lyrics are literally moving the piece forward.
In this, the energy and the expression of the song is what actually moves us forward.
It feels like those tapes moving them through various atmospheres and tonalities.
Taichman echoes that, noting the unique possibilities of musical storytelling onstage.
The piece is about finding beauty in a really brutal situation through music, she reflects.
But it really is a beautiful organizing principle for us.
We really want to celebrate that art form and share it more directly.
Its going to exist in a wonderfully surreal way on stage now, so its just beautifully iterative.
Sing Streetbegins Broadway previews on March 26, with opening night set for April 19.
The original Broadway cast album also drops March 26, andis available for pre-order now.
