Harvey Weinstein Broadway Bound
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The Weinstein Co. — a minority co-producer on the season’s Tony-winning play and play revival, “August: Osage County” and “Boeing-Boeing,” respectively — has developed an ambitious slate of stage projects, likely to kick off with the upcoming tuner version of “Finding Neverland” in 2010, followed by a stage incarnation of Pink Floyd album “The Wall.”
Also in the hopper are musicals based on Miramax pics “Shakespeare in Love,” “Chocolat,” “Cinema Paradiso” and “Shall We Dance.”
Since he helped bring the 2000 revival of Tom Stoppard’s play “The Real Thing” to Broadway and then became involved the following year in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” Weinstein has, both personally and with the production company he runs with his brother, Bob, invested in and produced legit fare, albeit maintaining a low-key role in the creative process. For the upcoming slate of projects, however, he’s laying plans for TWC to take the reins.
“Now it’s time for us to really take the lead on things,” Weinstein said. “We own all these properties that lend themselves to musicals.”
- from Broadway