Dolly Parton plans for a musical on her life using her songs to land on Broadway in 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway has had nice success with “Hiya, Dolly.” Now prepare for “Hiya, I’m Dolly.”

Dolly Parton is writing new songs to associate with a few of her previous hits and co-writing a stage story impressed by her life for a stage musical that she hopes to land on Broadway in 2026.

“I’ve written many authentic songs for the present and included all of your favorites in it as effectively. You’ll chortle, you’ll cry, you’ll clap, you’ll stomp, it actually is a Grand Ol’ Opera. Pun and enjoyable supposed,” she mentioned in an announcement.

Parton will crew up with Maria S. Schlatte on the story. Schlatte gained an Emmy for producing Netflix’s “Christmas on the Sq.,” which starred Christine Baranski.

“Hiya, I’m Dolly” is the title of Parton’s debut album launched in 1967, which had the songs ″Dumb Blonde″ and ”One thing Fishy.″

Parton went on to turn out to be a nationwide treasure, starring in films, writing books, incomes Grammys, turning into the primary nation artist to be named MusiCares Particular person of the Yr and donating $1 million for coronavirus analysis.

With 52 Grammy nominations and 11 wins, she is the second-most nominated girl in Grammy historical past, solely behind Beyoncé, who has 79 nods and 24 wins. The nation icon earned the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award a decade in the past.

Parton can have loads of previous hits to select from, together with her three Prime 10 hits on the Billboard Scorching 100 — “9 to five,” “Right here You Come Once more” and “Islands within the Stream.” She additionally has 25 No. 1 Scorching Nation songs like “Yellow Roses,” “Assume About Love,” “Tennessee Homesick Blues” and “Jolene.”

This gained’t be the primary time Parton’s music might be heard on Broadway. A stage model of “9 to five” landed in 2009 starring Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty and Allison Janney, and the 1993 Christmas particular “Candles, Snow & Mistletoe” contained her music “With Bells On.”

Parton’s present would be the newest musician bio on Broadway utilizing their songs, becoming a member of such latest artists as Neil Diamond, Alicia Keys, Michael Jackson, Carole King and Gloria and Emilio Estefan.

She’s going to be a part of such pop and rock luminaries as Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, The Go-Gos, Sting,Alanis Morissette, Dave Stewart, Edie Brickell, Trey Anastasio, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim and Bono and The Edge with Broadway scores.

“Hiya, I’m Dolly” might be produced by Parton, Adam Speers for ATG Productions and Danny Nozell for CTK Enterprises.