American Psycho musical being prepped by Duncan Sheik!

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 17 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

I guess you can make a musical about anything. This has been proven by the announcement in Variety that AMERICAN PSYCHO is getting the song-and-dance treatment. The notion was brought up in 2008, but now it’s really taking shape, with a creative team joining the venture in the form of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Duncan Sheik, who will be writing the book and the songs, respectively.

Aguirre-Sacasa is a comic-book writer, playwright, and t.v. scribe who works on HBO’s “Big Love” (which coincidentally stars Chloe Sevigny, who of course was in 2000’s film adaptation of PSYCHO). Sheik was a pop-crooner in the 90s (remember “Barely Breathing”?!) and has moved on to Broadway, winning a Tony for his involvement in the musical “Spring Awakening”.

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