SUPER FLY, Based on 1972 Film, Steps Closer to Broadway Debut

SUPER FLY, the musical based on the 1972 film directed by GorDon Parks, has taken further steps toward its Broadway debut. A casting notice has gone out from The Mottola Group and The Dodgers Developmental Lab, seeking actors for an October workshop.

The Equity casting notice calls for male singers who tap, and the workshop is scheduled for October 3rd through the 22nd. The music is described as 1970s R&B/Soul/Funk/Pop Era, written mainly by Curtis Mayfield - the composer of the film soundtrack, which indicates that the musical will pull its songs from the movie.

Bill T. Jones will choreograph and direct SUPER FLY, which features a book from Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and musical direction from Ron Melrose.

Jones is a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, has received major honors ranging from a 1994 MacArthur "Genius" Award to Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009. His ventures into Broadway Theater resulted in a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography in the critically acclaimed FELA! He also earned a 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography in Spring Awakening as well as an Obie Award for the show's 2006 off-Broadway run.

In addition to creating more than 140 works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Mr. Jones has received numerous commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet, and the Ravinia Festival which commissioned and premiered Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray in 2009.

Mr. Jones' memoir, Last Night on Earth, was published by Pantheon Books in 1995. Hyperion Books published Dance, a children's book written by Bill T. Jones and photographer Susan Kuklin in 1998. Mr. Jones contributed to Continuous Replay: The Photography of Arnie Zane, published by MIT Press in 1999.