Practical Magic Musical With Music by Norah Jones and Gregg Wattenberg in Development

A new musical based on the bestselling novel Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman and the 1998 Warner Bros. movie of the same name is in development, produced by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.

The new musical will feature an original score by Grammy Award winners Norah Jones and Gregg Wattenberg, a book by Alice Hoffman and Peter Duchan, and direction by Tony nominee Maria Friedman. Mark Kaufman will serve as creative consultant.

In Practical Magic, the Owens women have been feared, blamed, and whispered about in their small Massachusetts town for more than two centuries. Orphaned as children and raised by their eccentric aunts, sisters Sally and Gillian Owens grow up determined to escape the ancestral curse they inherited. Choosing opposite paths, the sisters try to outrun their past, until love, loss, and long-buried secrets pull them back together and they are forced to confront their family legacy.