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Allen is adapting the film as a stage musical to be directed by Susan Stroman, produced by Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson, with a score from the American songbook.
Whilst concentrating on Movie Soundtracks over the next six years; including Pride, Duma, Racing Stripes, Tsotsi and The Constant Gardener Emmanuelle started writing again, culminating in her returning from 2007 to her first love of jazz and has been working with her band ever since, performing at venues across the UK and Europe, writing and singing her own material as well as original arrangements of the classic American Songbook.
These works combine stylistic devices from a wide variety of post-war painting, including Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Ed Ruscha, along with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Laura Nyro, and Sylvester, among others, pulling from popular music, Broadway show tunes, the Great American Songbook, Yiddish, and film.
It is a mix of original Swing, Big Band and Vocal Jazz/Pop compositions by Jonny Blu and some classic American songbook standards.
He and his musical colleagues Dalibor Brazda and Gustav Brom also arranged and recorded many titles for British singer Gery Scott in the late 1950s, mostly from what is now termed the American Songbook series.