An Amy Winehouse musical may finally be happening.
The late singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, recently revealed early plans to turn his daughter's legacy into a London stage production.
"A musical celebrating her life and music is being talked about for the near future," he announced at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala last week, The Sun reports. "It is something I'd really like to happen and I've said I'm happy for it to go ahead."
The production is slated for the West End and will remember "Amy for what she was", he added. "There's so much more to her than just the drugs and the alcohol."
Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27.
[Amy with Mitch, performing for the 2008 Grammy Awards]
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"We want to do something positive about how she developed her music. What we don't hear is that she was clean of drugs for three years when she died," Mitch Winehouse continued.
However, The Sun reports that the show will "likely" include the singer's struggle with drugs and troubled marriage with Blake Fielder-Civil, who she was with from 2007 to 2009.
There were previous plans to turn Winehouse's life into a musical in 2012 – in Denmark – but development was scrapped after the singer's dad disapproved of the production's usage of her music and photographs.
At the time, there's no further info on the new musical (such as its release date or creative team), but according to her father's description, this project already sounds like it's started off on the right note.
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