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Freud confirms Beatles' songs to star in musical
Screenwriter Richard Curtis and his wife Emma Freud are looking to bring the movie Yesterday on to the theatre stage
Film producer Emma Freud has confirmed The Beatles have agreed for their songs to feature in a stage version of the movie, Yesterday.
Freud is working on the show with her husband, Richard Curtis. They were behind the 2019 film and other box office hits, including Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary.
She called it "a huge deal", saying: "They've [The Beatles] never done that with a West End musical before. So it's the first time that you can kind of legally see The Beatles' music on stage, which is amazing."
Freud spoke to BBC Radio Suffolk on Monday, after she received an honorary doctorate for her work in film and broadcasting at the University of Suffolk on Saturday.
Emma Freud received an honorary doctorate in Ipswich on Saturday
She said a theatre where the stage show will be performed had been chosen - "but I can't tell you what it is because I will get killed".
She confirmed the stage version of Yesterday would also be directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle, who oversaw the movie.
Freud said: "We're at workshop stages, so we've already had two workshops and we've got a third one coming up this month, where you sort of ask actors to come into a room and just interrogate the script and the songs and the staging, and see how it's going to work.
"Currently we're on the 11th draft of the script, because it isn't just taking a movie script and putting it on to a stage.