RIALTO CHATTER: Peace, Love And Broadway As 'Woodstock' Musical Takes Shape For Stage

The New York Times reports that Michael Lang, one of the producers of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, said that he plans to bring a new show to the Broadway stage that will use elements from his recent memoir, "The Road to Woodstock," written with Holly George-Warren.

"We've been thinking about a Broadway version of the experience for years, but writing the memoir really brought it into focus for me," Mr. Lang said in a telephone interview with The Times.

Lang told the paper that the as-yet untitled musical, which is planned for the 2010-2011 Broadway season, would "center less on the details of producing the festival than on the lives of people who attended it and how the experience affected them."

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The "Woodstock Music & Art Fair" was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", held on Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County.

During the sometimes rainy weekend, thirty-two acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-goers. It is widely considered one of the greatest and most pivotal moments in popular music history.

The event was captured in the successful 1970 documentary movie Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock" which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. The recent film "Taking Woodstock" ,which starred Jonathan Groff, was based on the event.