About the Album: Sideways The Musical, is an adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel, Sideways, which the Oscar-winning film starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, was based on. The story follows the main character Miles Raymond, a divorced, failed writer and wine connoisseur who lives in Santa Monica. Miles is pinning all his hopes on his latest novel landing a publishing deal to hoist him out of his state of despond.
Weathering bankruptcy and career failure, Miles takes his soon-to-be-married best friend, Jack Manse, a C-list character actor and erstwhile TV director, on a wine-tasting road trip through California’s little-known Santa Ynez Valley, as his "best man" present to Jack. Their adventure unwittingly devolves into a bawdy, wine-fueled pleasure-fest with late night accidental drunk calls, pre-marital infidelities and the two of them getting down and nutty. When Miles and Jack encounter two extraordinary women, Maya and Terra, their holiday in wine country takes an unexpected turn. In vino veritas.
Sideways The Musical features new scenes that aren’t in the novel or movie and expands the roles of the female leads while raising the emotional stakes between all four main characters without sacrificing any of the riotously funny comedy the film is famous for.
The music was composed and arranged by Anthony Leigh Adams, who collaborated closely with Rex Pickett on the book for the musical. Together they co-wrote the lyrics. Anthony is grateful to his friend and partner for the opportunity to collaborate on the adaptation of his poignant and hilarious novel, Sideways, without which there would be no musical. Tony Award-winning director, Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes, Sinatra The Musical), is attached to direct and choreograph the stage production of Sideways The Musical.
Label: Broadway Records
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