03-12-1998 – MTV News – Life Of Mercury
Life Of Queen’s Mercury Coming To Broadway
The life of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is the basis of a new Broadway musical scheduled to open late this year or in early 1999.
The play, tentatively entitled “Queen,” uses that group’s music to tell Mercury’s life story from childhood through his untimely death from AIDS in 1991.
The other members of Queen are co-producing the show, which was written by Craig Lucas, the screenwriter of the Meg Ryan/Alec Baldwin movie “Prelude To A Kiss.”
The show will be directed by Chris Renshaw, whose credits include the most recent Broadway revival of “The King And I.”
No word yet on who’s in the running for the starring role.
