Susanna Kaysen\u2019s cult memoir sparked a wave of 90s novels about young women in crisis. After 10 years in the making, stars Juliana Canfield and King Princess are bringing it to the stage<\/p>\n
Girl, Interrupted may seem like unlikely material for a musical. Based on a 1993 best-selling memoir by Susanna Kaysen, the slim volume chronicles the author\u2019s approximately two-year stay inside a psychiatric facility in the late 1960s. After a decade of effort, the book\u2019s adaptation is finally premiering off Broadway at New York\u2019s Public Theater<\/a> with a cast that includes Juliana Canfield, the Tony-nominated Stereophonic<\/a> actress, as Susanna and the pop star King Princess<\/a>, in her stage debut, as Lisa.<\/p>\n Though the theatrical interpretation pulls solely from the memoir, James Mangold\u2019s 1999 film adaptation, starring Winona Ryder<\/a> as Susanna and Angelina Jolie<\/a> in an Oscar-winning performance as Lisa, will probably loom large in the audience\u2019s minds, as it did for the cast.<\/p>\n
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