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Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen Team Up for ’90s Adaptation

The beloved teen rom-com is making a musical comeback.

Nearly three decades after becoming a beloved ’90s teen classic, 10 Things I Hate About You is headed to Broadway, Variety reports. Pop sensation and “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly Rae Jepsen is joining forces with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ethan Gruska to work on the score, while Girls creator and star Lena Dunham and veteran playwright Jessica Huang are penning the book. Christopher Wheeldon will direct and choreograph, and Tom Kitt is leading musical arrangements and orchestrations. Based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, the 1999 film helped launch the careers of Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Remembering the audition of Ledger, who died aged 28, director Gil Junger said just this month, “He took about four steps towards me, and… I thought, ‘If this kid can read English, I’m going to cast him.’ There was just a presence.”