Harvey Weinstein Wants to Bring Katy Perry to Broadway in Marilyn Monroe Musical
'My Week with Marilyn' producer Harvey Weinsten recently expressed interest in bringing the story of the blonde bombshell to the Broadway stage, starring music star Katy Perry. He told E!:"If the movie [of My Week With Marilyn] works, I would try to make it a musical and I would go to Katy first. I think she can play Marilyn on the Broadway stage ... I think she would be amazing."
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Perry rose to fame with the release of her second single "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008, which went on to top international charts. Perry's first mainstream studio album One of the Boys followed later that year and subsequently became the 33rd-best selling album worldwide of 2008. It was accredited platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, while "I Kissed a Girl" and her second single "Hot n Cold" both received multi-platinum certifications. In 2009, Billboard magazine named her the 51st-best-selling music artist of the 2000–2009 decade.