James Taylor’s music will likely be coming to the stage in a wholly new means.
The 77-year-old Grammy winner’s discography will likely be utilized in a musical, presently titled Fireplace and Rain after his hit 1970 tune. The undertaking will inform an authentic story from Tracy Letts, the award-winning playwright behind August: Osage County and performer recognized for a lot of display screen roles, together with Woman Hen and The Large Brief, and Tony Award winner David Cromer (The Band’s Go to) will deal with directing duties.
Extra particulars about Fireplace and Rain are nonetheless forthcoming.
Taylor’s profession took off after he received over Paul McCartney and George Harrison of the Beatles with a efficiency in 1967. His massive break led to him turning into the primary artist to ever be signed by the band’s file label Apple on the younger age of 19.
He went on to win six Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2000. His most up-to-date Grammy win got here in 2021 for his undertaking,American Normal.
A few of Taylor’s most memorable hits embrace “One thing within the Method She Strikes” and “Fireplace and Rain,” which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, in addition to covers of “You’ve got Received a Good friend” and “How Candy It Is (to Be Beloved By You).”
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In 2020, Taylor spoke to PEOPLE about his journey to music, recalling how he realized he may pursue it professionally whereas being deal with for despair as a teen. All these years later, he shared how his notion of music and artwork had modified.
“An artist is compelled by their life circumstances to discover a new means of coping with an issue, and generally they blaze a path that results in an answer — one which different folks can use. It’s massively gratifying,” he stated. “All I ever needed to do was to play music and to have folks take pleasure in it, sometimes use it of their lives, and make it a part of their world. That’s a terrific feeling.”
Taylor is not the one music star to have their life and discography became a stage present. Most not too long ago, Dolly Parton is readying a undertaking, too.
Her present — titled Dolly — will premiere in Nashville on July 18, 2025. Reveals will run within the Music Metropolis by means of August 17, 2025 earlier than heading to Broadway in 2026. Tickets are already obtainable to buy.