THE KING'S SPEECH HEADED TO BROADWAY

According to reports from Showbiz411, David Seidler's Oscar winning movie ‘The King's Speech" will be headed on Broadway in the fall of 2012. Seidler wrote the screenplay for ‘The King's Speech' after he wrote it as a play.

Word is that casting is underway by casting director Gabrielle Dawes and that the play will first run in the UK in the beginning of 2012. Guilford's Yvonne Arnaud Theater will host a three to five week engagement in January.
The plan is that after the run at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, "The King's Speech" will move to London's West End in March before moving to Broadway in the fall.
The King's Speech is a British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper from a script by David Seidler. The film won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award. The film stars Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped George VI overcome a stammer. Filming commenced in the United Kingdom in November 2009. The film is set for a limited release in the United States on 26 November 2010 and on general release across the UK on 7 January 2011.

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