Weird Al's Broadway Musical in the Works with Moulin Rouge! Team
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Deadline reports that a new Broadway musical featuring Weird Al Yankovic songs—Dare to Be Stupid: The Weird Al Musical—is in development with Moulin Rouge! director Alex Timbers and writers Scott Brown and Anthony King attached; Seaview is producing. The show will pull from Yankovic's four-decade catalog (White & Nerdy, Amish Paradise, Eat It, Smells Like Nirvana, Like a Surgeon) and additional production details will be announced soon.
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