CYRANO DE BERGERAC to Get Musical Makeover on Disney Channel

According to Variety, Tyler James Williams is set to star in a new Disney Channel original movie, titled 'Let It Shine.' The film will be a 'gospel/hip-hop musical adaptation' of "Cyrano De Bergerac.

The film will feature original music by Rock Mafia, Toby Gad and David Banner, and is set to arrive on the small screen in summer 2012. The film will be directed by Paul Hoen, and feature a screenplay by Don D. Scott and Eric Daniel.

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Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life.The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. 

The show premiered on Broadway in 1923, featuring Walter Hampden. In 1946 Hampden passed the torch to José Ferrer, who won a Tony Award for playing Cyrano in a much-praised Broadway staging, 
Other notable English-speaking Cyranos were Ralph Richardson, DeVeren Bookwalter, Derek Jacobi, Richard Chamberlain, and Christopher Plummer, who played the part in Rostand's original play and won a Tony Award for the 1973 musical adaptation. Kevin Kline played the role in a Broadway production in 2007, with Jennifer Garner playing Roxane and Daniel Sunjata as Christian.