Spike Lee to Film 'Strange' Musical
Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT
Filmmaker Spike Lee reportedly is set to shoot the Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange.
EW.com said Lee is to film two performances with audiences and a third one without spectators during the course of a weekend this month.
The show's producers are financing the production, which is expected to air on cable television, EW.com said.
The musical is about a young black musician, raised in a church-going, middle-class Los Angeles neighborhood, who decides to embark on a journey to find the real, entertainment news Web site said.
Lee's movies include Mo' Better Blues, She's Gotta Have It, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X and Inside Man.
Passing Strange won a Tony this year for best book for a musical and was nominated for six other Tonys.
Source: United Press International
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