Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is adapting Meg Wolitzer's novel 'The Interestings' into a musical.
Sara Bareilles had no trouble drawing inspiration from Meg Wolitzer’s 2013 coming-of-age novel, The Interestings. After earning a Best Original Score Tony nod for Waitress in 2016, Bareilles, 44, signed on to compose the musical adaptation of The Interestings, which is currently in the workshop phase. Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl is writing the book. “I read it so fast,” Bareilles exclusively told Us Weekly in November of Wolitzer’s novel.
“It was just a couple of days, and I could not believe how vibrant and alive the world felt to me.” Both Waitress and The Interestings feature characters who feel distant from younger, more ambitious versions of themselves, but Bareilles noted that the latter has a “sophistication” not present in Waitress. “These are hyper-intellectual, whereas Waitress is about a small community, down-home southern town,” she explained. “These are, like, New York intellectuals. So, I think the music reflects that a little bit.” For Bareilles, the “biggest challenge” of the project was “trying to distill and condense” a 560-page novel into one musical. “We’re not making a six-hour show. Those get made, but we're not trying to make that kind of show for this book,” she said. “We're trying to make sure that what is getting distilled are the juiciest bits of this novel, knowing that nothing is gonna really hold everything this novel holds. And I will always recommend that people — whatever you love or don't love about the musical — go read this book. I think the book is so special.” The Interestings follows a group of friends who meet as teenagers at an arts camp in 1974. The novel’s central character, Jules, sees herself as less sophisticated than her peers, and those insecurities follow her into adulthood as she romanticizes her longtime friends’ Ash and Ethan’s lives and marriage. Bareilles said she “felt so close” to the characters when reading the book, specifically Jules. “ has a little bit of Peter Pan syndrome”
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