Regina Spektor, Michael Korie, Tina Landau to Collaborate on Broadway-Bound Beauty

Regina Spektor will write the music and Michael Korie will write the lyrics for the musical Beauty, to be written and directed by Tina Landau, which is aiming for the 2011-12 Broadway season, following an out-of-town tryout to be announced.

An expansion of Landau’s 2002 acclaimed one-act play produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, the musical uses the 1812 Grimm fairy tale Sleeping Beauty as a jumping-off point for a contemporary and hauntingly provocative story of beauty lost and beauty found. Landau is the co-author of Floyd Collins and Dream True. She is the director of Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts, which begins its Broadway run on September 16.

Spektor is best known for her album Begin to Hope and will appear on NBC’s Saturday Night Live on October 10 and at Radio City Music Hall on October 14. Korie’s stage credits include Grey Gardens and The Grapes of Wrath.