Neko Case working on ‘Thelma and Louise’ musical

Neko Case is working on a musical adaptation of 1991 film Thelma and Louise. In fact, she’s been working on it for nine years with the film’s original screenwriter, Callie Khouri, writing the book. “I was the target audience for that movie,” Case told The New York Times in a new feature on the singer-songwriter and her memoir, which is out this month. “I was exactly the right age. I saw it trillions of times.”

Case shared more on Thelma & Louise today via her “Entering the Lung” Substack: “The story of Thelma and Louise is so excruciatingly relevant to this very second and so timeless also. Most days I cry at parts I have seen literally thousands of times over the last NINE years of working on it. That’s how good Callie Khouri’s writing is. It does not stale. Sadly, the attempted subjugation of women in our world doesn’t either.” She told the Times she hopes the adaptation will hit Broadway in the next year or two.

In the post, Neko also talks about being exposed to the world of dance through the Thelma and Louise adaptation (“What an absolute gift all these performers are. They are also true collaborators”), and trying to make human connections through our screen-obsessed world. You can read the whole thing here.

Neko will be on a book tour for her memoir, The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, which includes stops at NYC’s Symphony Space on January 27, (with Samantha Bee), Brooklyn’s First Unitarian Congregation Society on January 28 (with Emma Straub), and Princeton, NJ’s McCarter Center on January 29 (with A.M. Homes).