Woodstock Producer Michael Lang to Bring His Legendary Concert to Broadway

Move over, Hair—a new batch of hippies may be heading to Broadway. Harmony Entertainment has acquired the rights to Michael Lang and Holly George-Warren's best-selling Woodstock memoir The Road to Woodstock with intent to develop the book into a musical for Broadway's 2010-2011 season. Produced by Lang and Sam Nappi, the as-yet-untitled new tuner would utilize the music and themes of the Summer of Love to bring the famed Woodstock concert to the stage. No casting, theaters, creative team or dates have been announced at this time.

“It’s the ideal time to bring Woodstock and the summer of ‘69 to Broadway for people of all ages,” Lang said in a statement. “The theater is the perfect place to experience the events of that summer when music and the hope for peace brought us together and changed all of our lives. This has been a dream of mine for a long time, and I’m thrilled to finally make it a reality.”

Lang was the co-founder and producer of the Woodstock concert, which brought together musicians including the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone and dozens of others on a single ticket at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. The concert became one of the cultural milestones of the century, inspiring an Academy Award-winning documentary, countless books and a diverse array of films, including this summer's Taking Woodstock, featuring Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff as Lang.

Joining Lang at the newly formed Harmony Entertainment is Nappi, a businessman whose companies include Alliance Energy, which provides Green Electric power to over 250,000 households generated from clean energy sources. Press notes explain the new tuner would feature both new music composed specifically for the production and familiar rock classics from the concert itself. Lang explained to The New York Times that the show will center on the lasting impressions Woodstock left on those who participated in the event.