Tupac Shakur may have been dead for almost 18 years, but soon he'll be coming back to life...on Broadway? Yup, a new Tupac musical, Holler If Ya Hear Me, has started casting for actors for a series of workshops set to run later this spring with an eye on an eventual Broadway production.
According to director Kenny Leon the show—which has the approval of Shakur's mother Afeni—won't be about the East Coast/West Coast rap war. "The idea was always to make a musical inspired by his music and not to do an autobiographical approach to his life or anything like that," he told HuffPo.
"So a year from now hopefully you'll be seeing this world-changing musical on the Broadway stage. I couldn't be more excited," he continued. "Todd [Kriedler] is writing the book, and with the lyrics by Tupac, it's going to be very exciting, pretty much would sort of change the face of musical theater as we know it on Broadway, so I am looking forward to that."
The real question is, will the show include this classic Tupac track?
