The Baby-Sitters Club Book Series Being Adapted As Stage Musical With ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Composer On Board

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Posted: 9/15/25 at 12:55pm

https://deadline.com/2025/09/baby-sitters-club-stage-musical-1236530032

EXCLUSIVE: Ann M. Martin’s bestselling book series The Baby-sitters Club is being developed into a stage musical with a book by Kate Wetherhead (The Devil Wears Prada), music and lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick (Kpop Demon Hunters), and direction and choreography by Annie Tippe (Octet).

Theatrical rights to the book series have been optioned by TWTheatricals, a division of TheaterWorksUSA dedicated to creating fully produced, full-length works for multigenerational audiences. An exclusive industry presentation is scheduled for November 13 in New York City, with plans for a theatrical premiere in Spring 2027.

The Baby-sitters Club creator Martin said, “I love musicals and am excited to see the adventures of Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey come to life on stage. I’m humbled by the ongoing popularity of the series, and couldn’t be more thrilled by this news.”

Published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000, the book series has nearly 200 million copies in print to date and has been published in 23 languages. After launching, the series popularity skyrocketed and expanded to more than 250 titles, four spin-off book series, bestselling graphic novel adaptations, a TV series on HBO, a feature film from Sony Pictures, and an acclaimed original Netflix series.

The musical picks up twelve years after the disbanding of The Baby-sitters Club when the founding members – Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey – return to Stoneybrook, CT to honor the pact their 13-year-old selves made to reunite. Now twenty-five, the young women realize over the course of the show that the reunion not only presents an opportunity to revisit defining moments of their past, but to answer critical questions that have surfaced in their present-day lives: questions of identity, career, relationships and fulfillment.

“We look forward to bringing the BSC’s themes of friendship, growing pains, independence and self-discovery to a live audience,” said Wetherhead, “so that both young people and adults can see for themselves (or their former selves) that they are not alone in the grand adventure of ‘growing up.’”

“Though their triumphs and struggles and crushes are evergreen, these are girls of the ’80s and ’90s,” said Sonnenblick. “So the score’s inspired by some of our favorites – Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls, Shania Twain. We’re just very excited for everyone to hang out with the club in Stoneybrook, whether it’s your first time or your five hundredth.”

Barbara Pasternack, Producing Artistic Director at TWTheatricals, said, “The Baby-sitters Club series introduced the original girl bosses, shaping and inspiring the lives of millions of young women and girls then – and still today. For adults who loved the books, it taps into a shared sense of nostalgia, inviting each of us to revisit the memories that shaped us while reflecting on how far we’ve come. For audiences of any age, it’s an inspiring story of friendship, empowerment, and finding your own voice, and a reminder that our stories are always evolving. And the score is amazing.”

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Posted: 9/15/25 at 5:45pm

I am here for this!