THE FLAGMAKERS Documentary Stage Musical Adaptation In the Works
THE FLAGMAKERS Documentary Stage Musical Adaptation In the Works
The film follows the workers at the employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, WI, the country's largest American flag and flagpole maker.
The National Geographic documentary film The Flagmakers is being adapted into a stage musical directed by Saheem Ali.
Deadline reports that John J. Caswell Jr. is adapting the film for the stage. Mark GordonPictures executive produced the film and was quick to secure the rights to turn it into a musical.
The film follows the workers at the employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, WI, which is the country's largest American flag and flagpole maker. They sew and ship 5 million American flags per year.
Made up of locals, immigrants and refugees, the workers wrestle with their identity as they stitch the flags together. The acclaimed documentary short provides a glimpse into the lives of the people that make the country's most recognizable icon.
Saheem Ali is The Public Theater's associate artistic director and helms Fat Ham, which is slated to open on Broadway in 2023. He has also directed Off-Broadway productions of Nollywood Dreams, Fires In the Mirror, The New Englanders, The Rolling Stone, Passage, Fireflies, Sugar In Our Wounds, and Twelfth Night.
