Last August, we gave you an update on the deal that was struck to bring Pink Floyd's seminal album The Wall, created by Roger Waters, to the theatre stage in New York City's Broadway. We have some more on this show for you today.

Miramax Films have joined with Casablanca Records head Thomas Mottola to develop and produce a Broadway musical based on the rock opera. Roger Waters will write the Broadway show's book and arrange and orchestrate music for the stage production.

The project has been in the making for some time now - Roger has long wanted to bring it to the stage, and lighten the tone of at least some of the story. It has provided him with a distraction on long, boring flights over the years; Roger has been taking a notebook onto planes to work on the musical and refine it into an entertaining and accessible work for the general public, who might not even have heard the album.

We understand that the aim is to open the production within the next 12-18 months, and that it will include not just music from "The Wall", but other Pink Floyd songs as well as new music. As yet, these other songs have not been specified.

Said Waters of the planned Broadway show, "Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie."

Today's edition of the UK's Daily Mail newspaper has their showbiz writer, Baz Bamigboye, giving an update under the headline: "All in all, it's a new Wall". The report mentions:

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is about to bring together a top team to present the fantasy album The Wall on the stage. Waters has been adapting the album he created for a theatrical presentation and I understand that once the writer Lee Hall has finished working with Stephen Daldry on Billy Elliot (which, by the way, is looking terrific!), he will join Waters on The Wall.

Another major name who could join the project is Adrian Noble. But Noble has several shows and a film on the go this year, so he couldn't possibly work full-time on The Wall until next year.

...Waters wants to add several new aspects to the story, and also include songs from other Pink Floyd albums - such as Money, from the phenomenally bestselling Dark Side Of The Moon.

When Hall and Noble officially climb up the Wall, the various producers, who include the movie chief Harvey Weinstein and music executive Tommy Mottola, may decide to open the show in London.

However, there's a possibility that it could go to Broadway first. One idea (since rejected, I gather) was to open The Wall in a non-West End location such as the London Dome, for example.

Anyway, not a lot will happen before the middle of next year, so we'll all scale the Wall then.

The full article can be read through this link.

As more detail becomes available (including dates and venues) we will of course bring them to you.