The 1998 graduating class of Huntington Hillside High School is lastly getting collectively for his or her twenty fifth reunion… and it’s a musical!
On Saturday, Can’t Hardly Wait co-writer/director Deborah Kaplan introduced a stage musical within the works primarily based on her and Harry Elfont‘s 1998 cult basic teen film, which starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green and Charlie Korsmo.
She shared the title art and tagged the official Instagram profile for Can’t Hardly Wait: The Musical, writing within the caption, “And that’s all I’m able to say @canthardlywaitthemusical #comingsoon.”
Kaplan tells Deadline that she and Elfont are “mostly benevolent godparents watching from the sidelines” on the upcoming musical.
Can’t Hardly Wait: The Musical is produced by Michael Barra of Lively McCabe Entertainment.
Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose, Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Peter Facinelli and Charlie Korsmo in Can’t Hardly Wait (1998). (Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Co-writers and administrators Deborah Kaplan Harry Elfont on the set of Can’t Hardly Wait (1998). (Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
The authentic 1998 romantic comedy adopted six highschool seniors at their grad night time home celebration, the place Preston Meyers (Embry) plans to offer his very long time crush (Hewitt) a love letter after their probability encounter 4 years earlier than.
Can’t Hardly Wait boasts an all-star ensemble of the period’s younger Hollywood, together with Selma Blair, Jason Segel, Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry O’Connell, Donald Faison, Jaime Pressly, Clea DuVall, Leslie Grossman, Breckin Meyer, Sara Rue, Sean Patrick Thomas, Amber Benson, Marisol Nichols, Joel Michaely and Jennifer Elise Cox.
Serving as Kaplan and Elfont’s directorial debut earlier than they went on to helm Josie and the Pussycats (2001), in addition to the exhibits Mary + Jane (2016) and Liza on Demand (2018-2021).