DINER
PRE-BROADWAY WORLD PREMIERE
BASE Entertainment Presents
DINER
OPENS FOR BUSINESS AT SAN FRANCISCO'S SHN CURRAN THEATRE
STRICLTLY LIMITED 4 WEEK ENGAGEMENT
OCTOBER 23, 2012 - NOVEMBER 18, 2012
NOW TO BOW ON BROADWAY IN SPRING OF 2013
BOOK BY BARRY LEVINSON
MUSIC & LYRICS BY
SHERYL CROW
PRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF
WARNER BROS. THEATRE VENTURES, INC. AND BASED UPON
THE MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED BY JERRY WEINTRAUB AND
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY BARRY LEVINSON
DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY
KATHLEEN MARSHALL
(New York, NY - Tuesday, March 20, 2012) BASE Entertainment (Co-CEO's Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) is proud to announce that DINER, a new musical based on the critically acclaimed 1982 film with a book by Academy Award winner and original DINER screenwriter Barry Levinson and music & lyrics by 9-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at San Francisco's SHN Curran Theatre (445 Geary Street). Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall, DINER will play a strictly limited four week engagement from Tuesday, October 23, 2012, through Sunday, November 18, 2012, with an opening night of Friday, November 2, 2012. Due to these confirmed San Francisco dates DINER will now bow on Broadway in the spring of 2013, instead of the fall of 2012 as previously announced. Design team and casting will be announced at a later date.
DINER is set in Baltimore, 1959, when six high school friends reunite at the one place they know they'll always belong: the Diner. Now in their twenties, the friends have stumbled into adulthood and struggle to keep from growing apart. Life, love, responsibility - it's all on the table. DINER celebrates good times, great music and best friends.
Kathleen Marshall is currently represented on Broadway by the smash hit ANYTHING GOES and the upcoming premiere of the new Gershwin musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT. DINER marks the Broadway debut of both Barry Levinson and Sheryl Crow. Sheryl Crow has sold more than 35 million records worldwide including the singles "Soak Up the Sun," "First Cut is the Deepest," "If It Makes You Happy," "Every Day Is A Winding Road," "All I Wanna Do," "Strong Enough," "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Steve McQueen". Barry Levinson’s illustrious career includes the films Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam, Bugsy, Tin Men, The Natural, Young Sherlock Holmes, Toys, Disclosure, Sleepers, Wag the Dog and Avalon.
DINER was Barry Levinson's screen directing debut, and he received an Academy Award nomination for his original screenplay. The bittersweet comedy starred Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, Tim Daly, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Reiser, Mickey Rourke and Daniel Stern.