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Musical based on Jonathan Lethem's 'The Fortress of Solitude' heading to New York

By: Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press

Monday, Mar. 4, 2013 at 1:59 PM | Comments: 0

FILE - This Sept. 2005 file photo shows Jonathan Lethem, author of "Fortress of Solitude," outside his summer home in Blue Hill, Maine. A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel “The Fortress of Solitude” is heading toward New York. The Public Theater said Monday, March 4, 2013, that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel "The Fortress of Solitude" is heading toward New York.

The Public Theater said Monday that it will co-produce the show and bring it to its downtown home for the 2014-15 season after it debuts at the Dallas Theater Center in March.

The musical has a book by Itamar Moses and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, who also wrote songs for "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." The new musical is conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin.

Lethem's novel tells the story of two boys, one white, one black, both raised by single fathers in 1970s Brooklyn and both of whom become endowed with superpowers.

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Online: http://www.publictheatre.org

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