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HOTTEST TICKET Alison Lohman and Ewan McGregor starred in the 2003 movie adaptation of Big Fish. angling for a hit S ome stories never die. And it���s not only the deeply rooted tales of myth that keep recurring in different guises. Henry James���s Washington Square became a play and then a movie. Ken Kesey���s One Flew Over the Cuckoo���s Nest followed the same path. Even Michael Morpurgo���s novel War Horse made its mark on the stage before Steven Spielberg gave it worldwide fame. And now, in a variation on that curious creative trifecta, comes Big Fish. Opening this month, Big Fish is the Broadway-bound musical directed and choreographed by multiple Tony winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, 68 Crazy for You), with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) and a book penned by writer John August, who also wrote the screenplay for the 2003 Tim Burton film, based on the short novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. Mixing a smidgen of magical realism with a dose of Southern Gothic, Big Fish is a wild romp beneath which lies the moving story of a son���s desire to understand his father, Edward Bloom, a man who always rendered his life���even from his deathbed���in one tall tale after another. As the stage production was going into rehearsal this winter, PHOTOGRAPHY BY PICTORIAL PRESS LTD/ALAMY FANTASY-FILLED AND BROADWAY-BOUND, A NEW MUSICAL VERSION OF DANIEL WALLACE���S NOVEL BIG FISH MAKES ITS WORLD PREMIERE IN THE WINDY CITY. BY THOMAS CONNORS MICHIGANAVEMAG.COM 068-069_MA_SC_HT_Spring13.indd 68 2/8/13 2:13 PM