Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has secured worldwide licensing rights to WitzEnd Productions’ Off-Broadway hit Daddy Long Legs.
According to John Caird, “I first read Jean Webster’s novel some fifteen years ago and was immediately charmed by its wit, heart and intelligence. I was also surprised that a novel of such extraordinary sensitivity and economy of structure was not much better known, was not regarded, indeed, as a great American classic. With my dear friend and colleague Paul Gordon, the brilliant American tunesmith, I set about turning this lovely story into an intimate musical and I am delighted Music Theater International will now be licensing the show so that a whole new generation of performers and theatre-goers can fall in love with it just as we did.”
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