Deadline is reporting that Alex Timbers will no longer direct the Frozen Broadway production currently in the works. Additionally Billy Elliot choregrapher Peter Darling who was originally attached to the project has been replaced by Christopher Gattelli. No new director has been announced.
Alex Timbers
Regarding the change, Disney Theatrical President Thomas Schumacher said, “Making the tough calls when creating a new Broadway musical is never easy, but this was especially painful. Alex Timbers is one of the most exciting and innovative theatre directors I know, and we’ve proudly worked with him from my support of the early development of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson through our work together on Peter And The Starcatcher. Though we have chosen to go in another direction with this role, we are committed to seeing Frozen’s tremendous theatrical potential brought to life onstage.”
The Frozen stage musical is slated for a preview run in Dever, Colorado in 2017 before heading to Broadway in spring 2018.