{"id":497083,"date":"2026-10-15T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497083\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:14:08","slug":"the-baby-sitters-club-stage-musical-sets-los-angeles-premiere-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497083\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Stage Musical Sets Los Angeles Premiere Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The Baby-sitters Club<\/a>: A New Musical based on Ann M. Martin\u2019s book series that inspired the 1995 film and two TV series, will make its world premiere this spring with Center Theatre Group<\/a> at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

\n\tPreviews for the four-week run will begin on May 6, 2027, ahead of its May 16 opening. The dates and venue were announced today by the producing team, which includes Mountain A, the production company co-founded by Oscar-winning actor Natalie Portman.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Baby-sitters Club was a formative part of my childhood, as was musical theater, and I feel so lucky to get to be part of bringing these two worlds together,\u201d Portman said. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to share the joy these characters brought me as a kid with audiences this spring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline previously announced<\/a> the development of the project with a book by Kate Wetherhead (The Devil Wears Prada), music and lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick (KPop Demon Hunters), and direction and choreography by Annie Tippe (Octet). <\/p>\n

\n\tCasting for the project will begin soon, with The Telsey Office handling in New York and Henry Russell Bergstein Casting in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Mountain A \u2013 which was co-founded by Portman and Sophie Mas \u2013 producers will include TWTheatricals; Riva Marker for Linden Productions (Stereophonic); Naia Cucukov Richards & Lucy Kitada (Netflix\u2019s The Baby-sitters Club series); Peter Richards for Working Barn Productions; and Center Theatre Group. Co-producers are Gregg Arst and Laura Kaufmann of Tanna Entertainment, and Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon of LD Entertainment. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe musical reimagines Martin\u2019s book series and features characters Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey who, at 25 years old, return to Stoneybrook for an overdue reunion. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe synopsis: \u201cAs old friendships are rekindled and long-buried tensions resurface, the women find themselves confronting the grown-up questions that define this chapter of their lives: who they are, what they want, and whether the lives they\u2019ve built are the ones they truly imagined for themselves. At the heart of their journey is a reminder that, even as we grow and change, friendship can be a powerful source of strength and support\u2014and that we don\u2019t have to navigate life\u2019s challenges alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re creating something that is big hearted and timeless, while honoring what people love about The Baby-sitters Club,\u201d said Linden Productions and TWTheatricals in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin\u2019s book series is one of the most successful children\u2019s book line in publishing history with more than 200 million books in print worldwide. Launched by Scholastic in 1986, the series was originally conceived as just four books \u2013 Kristy\u2019s Great Idea, Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls, The Truth About Stacey, and Mary Anne Saves the Day \u2013 but ultimately expanded to more than 250 titles and four spin-off series. <\/p>\n

\n\tAdaptations included the 1990 HBO television series, the \u201995 feature film from Sony Pictures, and, most recently, the critically acclaimed 2020-21 Netflix series<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Baby-sitters Club: A New Musical based on Ann M. Martin\u2019s book series that inspired the 1995…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[106224,193093,48,52,51,47,50,49,193094],"class_list":["post-497083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-center-theatre-group","tag-kirk-douglas-theater","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-the-baby-sitters-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}