‘Like a gig with your favourite 90s artists’: KT Tunstall composes Clueless musical

Clueless will have lyrics by Glenn Slater who wrote songs for the stage adaptations of The Little Mermaid, Sister Act and School of Rock. It will be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh who said the original film was the best of the era’s teen romantic comedies and “full of heart and warmth where some of the others aren’t”. Hailing Heckerling as a trailblazing female writer-director in Hollywood, Kavanaugh said “it’s such a privilege to have her writing the book for this musical”. A self-declared Austen obsessive, Kavanaugh said the musical would delve into the minutiae of friendship groups, the class structure and social mores.