Cher Musical Could Soon Light Up Broadway; HAMILTON's Jeffrey Seller Producing

Cher's much-hyped biomusical could soon light up Broadway.

Scribe Rick Elice has confirmed to Michael Riedel at The New York Post that work on the project is coming along at a clip, with the first draft of the script being presented to producers, including HAMILTON's Jeffrey Seller, later this week. Also on the project is Flody Suarez, a famed television producer who urged Cher to take her story to the stage.

Elice, who also penned the book for the Tony-winning musical JERSEY BOYS said, "They may pack me in a van and have me carted away when they see what I've done with her life. Or I'll start doing what ["Gypsy" writer] Arthur Laurents always said about musicals, 'They don't get written. They get rewritten.' "

Though Cher's career has been rife with the fantastic, Elice says that it hasn't always been a benefit - particularly because the superstar's "life is so wildly documented." He added: "There is not much we don't know about her. I was not a fanatical Cher fan, but when I started working on this show I was surprised at how much I knew."

Cher also recently provided an update on the musical herself, saying it "pushes the envelope" in a tweet.

She first spoke of the project in 2012 when she announced on Twitter that she was working with producers on the show, saying: "Prods. R writing mucial now about my life with my music. There r 3 Chers! 1 b4 i met Son thru S&C yrs. 1 after i left thru Believe tour & 1."

Cher has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, and a Cannes FilmFestival Award for her work in film, music, and television. She began her career as a backup singer and came to prominence in 1965 as one-half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "I Got You Babe".

She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist and became a television star in 1971 with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, a variety show for which she won a Golden Globe. A well-received performance in the film Silkwood earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1983. In the following years, she starred in a string of hit films including Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988.

Image Courtesy of Cher's Official Website