Tony winner Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple, Widows, Bad Times at the El Royale) and Tony nominee Josh Gad (Murder on the Orient Express, Frozen 2, Artemis Fowl) are teaming up for a Rip Van Winkle musical feature, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Gad’s take on the Rip Van Winkle tale is currently being kept under wraps.
Rip Van Winkle was a short story written by Washington Irving, who also penned The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The fictional tale took place from the time of the American Revolution that helped lend a mythic air to colonial America.