Aimee Mann's Girl, Interrupted Musical Hits Broadway

0:00It's April 2nd. Welcome in. This is Music News Today, where the industry meets AI. After almost a decade in the making, the musical Take On Girl interrupted his finally hitting the stage with original songs from I Me Man. King Princess, that's my Kayla Strauss, steps into her theatrical debut as Lisa, the wild character Angelina Jolie, turned into Oscar Gold back in the Y. 1999 film from Susanna Cacin's memoir, Preview's kick off May 13th at New York's public theater, with the full run locked in from June 4th through June 21st. This project's been brewing since Man spilled the beans in a 2018 interview, blending her songwriting chops right into the heart of the story, Man even dropped her 2022 album Queens of the Summer Hotel, alongside crafting these tunes, pulling straight from the memoirs Raw Bives, of mental health struggles and friendship and a psych ward. Fans of the movie are buzzing, seeing how this stage version flips the script with live music and fresh energy.

1:01Word from Billboard has everyone hyped on King Princess owning that chaotic Lisa role, marking a big leap from her pop world to Broadway lights. Man's long grind on this shows her commitment to stories that hit deep, expect this limited run to spark talks on adapting cult classics for the stage, blending Indy Rock Edge with the theater grit, keeping eye out as it unfolds this summer.