CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND Creators Discuss Their Hopes For a Musical Adaptation

Recently, the creators of the hit television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna, chatted with Deadline about the longstanding rumor that a musical version of the show is in the works.

The pair said that the idea is still in talks, but, McKenna said, "There's no timeline on it though. We're good with what we did [with the finale] so there's no rush."

Bloom commented on what her hopes are for the structure of this potential musical.

"The reason why we would rehash the show for a musical isn't because we want to rest on laurels," she said. "There's a version of this show where it is a long TV show and then there's an equally as interesting version where it's a finite two and a half hour plot where you streamline things and obviously some things get cut out."

She goes on to say that she would want the musical to be a companion piece to the TV show, rather than a straight adaptation.

"...I think musicalizing television shows is so much more interesting than musicalizing movies because movies already have that plot streamlined into two and a half hours," she said. "With TV shows, there's a lot to pick from and it's a different narrative structure. That will eventually be very interesting for us."

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend tells the story of Rebecca Bunch, a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan - in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, CA.

From CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND is executive produced by Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada"), Marc Webb ("500 Days of Summer"), Erin Ehrlich ("Awkward"), Michael Hitchcock ("Glee") and Sarah Caplan (RAY DONOVAN). The music is produced by Adam Schlesinger(executive music producer) and Steven Gold (music producer), and the songs are co-written by Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen (supervising producer). The music from the series is distributed by WaterTower Music and is sold on all digital retailers.