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"A Jeff Buckley musical is reportedly set to enter development in New York. The show, titled The Last Goodbye after one of Buckley&amp;#039;s best known songs, will be a contemporary telling of Shakespeare&amp;#039;s Romeo and Juliet, set to the late singer-songwriter&amp;#039;s music and lyrics. The Guardian reports that a series of workshops pertaining to the musical will begin in New York early next year. The attachment of two-time Tony award nominee Alex Timbers, who is fresh from directing Broadway hit Peter and the Starcatcher, makes the idea of an eventual production on Broadway a real possibility.  The project originally began in 2010, after Michael Kimmel conceived and adapted the venture and premiered a self-directed early version of the show at the 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival. Buckley&amp;#039;s mother Mary Guibert said in 2010 that initially she thought the project was a &amp;quot;real stretch&amp;quot;, but then said Kimmel won her round, arguing: &amp;quot;Suddenly I felt that across centuries you had two kindred spirits talking about the same things \u00E2\u20AC\u201C love, relationships, suffering, death... it was like having my eyes opened to Jeff&amp;#039;s music in a new light, a different and very natural light.&amp;quot; Mystery White Boy, a biopic of the singer-songwriter starring Gemma Arterton and Olivia Thirlby, is also currently in development. Listen to Jeff Buckley&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Last Goodbye&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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