The romance he's reading follows a blue collar young man named Noah (Ryan Gosling) who falls in love with an upper class woman named Allie in town for the summer. If you haven't seen The Notebook, the story unfolds as an elderly man (James Garner) in an assisted living home reads a romance to another resident elderly woman (Gena Rowlands) with Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile, Deutsch is the founder of Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records, a Broadway album label that has won Grammys for The Book of Mormon and also In the Heights. McCollum is no stranger to Broadway success having produced In the Heights, Avenue Q and RENT. The news of The Notebook Broadway musical comes from Kevin McCollum and Kurt Deutsch (via Deadline), who are producing the production with author Nicholas Sparks.
Find out more about The Notebook Broadway musical below. The Notebook is in the process of becoming a Broadway musical with This Is Us supervising producer and playwright Bekah Brunstetter writing the book and folk pop singer and songwriter Ingrid Michaelson behind the music and lyrics.
If you watched the adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' romance novel The Notebook and thought the story could use a little more song and dance, we have good news.