Tupac Musical 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' Starts Casting, Aims for Broadway

A minumum of one new production might give Broadway some street cred next season. Casting will start now for "Holler If Ya Hear Me," a brand new musical inspired by and including the background music from the late stylish-hop icon Tupac Shakur. The storyline is occur present around the inner-city roads of the Midwestern industrial city, where two childhood buddies as well as their extended families find it difficult to reconcile the difficulties and facts of the lives using their hopes, dreams, and ambitions."The concept was always to create a musical inspired by his music and to avoid an autobiographical method of his existence or anything like this,Inch director Kenny Leon stated throughout a job interview with PBS in November. "And since I usually believed that Tupac would be a prophet and that i thought if everyone could hear his words and listen to his tales, they'd see things i see. So we will most likely perform a large workshop in NY and I am going to try and take it to Broadway within the next Broadway season."Casting director David Caparelliotis of MelCap Casting is mainly seeking African-American and White emcees who are able to also sing and act. Open auditions for Equity and nonunion entertainers is going to be held Saturday, March 10 in NY City. Equity chorus requires men and women singer-emcees is going to be held Wednesday, March 14. To learn more and audition particulars, see the full casting notices on BackStage.com. (Subscription needed.)Leon formerly directed the Broadway productions of "The Mountaintop," "Stick Fly," "A Raisin the sun's rays,Inch "Fences," and much more. He's even the artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, and that he is presently focusing on an organized film remake of "Steel Magnolias," that will feature an exciting African-American cast. Leon told the Huffington Publish he had begun dealing with Shakur's mother, Afeni, with an early reading through from the musical in October. Afeni Shakur has apparently approved the show.The developmental workshop will run from April 23 to May 11, but a Broadway premiere date is not set. "Holler If Ya Hear Me" will be the first full-scale stylish-hop production in Broadway history.Caparelliotis' Broadway casting credits include "Seminar," "Stick Fly," "Bengal Tiger in the Bagdad Zoo" and also the approaching revival of "Dying of the Salesperson."