{"id":119455,"date":"2025-03-18T03:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/18\/james-taylors-music-to-be-the-subject-of-a-new-musical\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T03:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:01:24","slug":"james-taylors-music-to-be-the-subject-of-a-new-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/18\/james-taylors-music-to-be-the-subject-of-a-new-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"James Taylor\u2019s music to be the subject of a new musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-17\/Getty_JamesTaylor_031725.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Nicholas Hunt\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>James Taylor<\/strong>\u2019s music could soon be at the center of a new stage musical.<\/p>\n<p>A new musical is in early development that will be based around the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer&#8217;s catalog. It will be titled <em>Fire &amp; Rain<\/em>, after his 1970 classic, which was a top-five hit for Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Award-winning playwright <strong>Tracy Letts<\/strong>, best known for his play <em>August: Osage Country<\/em>, is handling the story. Director <strong>David Cromer<\/strong>, who&#8217;s currently directing <strong>George Clooney<\/strong> on\u00a0Broadway in <em>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em>, is helming the project.<\/p>\n<p>Specific details on the musical, including the story and what songs will be used, have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s catalog includes such classic songs\u00a0as \u201cYou\u2019ve Got A Friend,\u201d written by <strong>Carole King<\/strong>, \u201cHow Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You),\u201d \u201cCarolina In My Mind,\u201d &#8220;Shower the People&#8221; and \u201cSweet Baby James.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Hunt\/Getty Images James Taylor\u2019s music could soon be at the center of a new stage musical. A new musical is in early development that will be based around the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer&#8217;s catalog. It will be titled Fire &amp; Rain, after his 1970 classic, which was<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/18\/james-taylors-music-to-be-the-subject-of-a-new-musical\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}