Grammy Winner Terence Blanchard to Score A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway

Five-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard has been tapped to compose original music for the upcoming revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood in his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski. The Emily Mann-helmed play is scheduled to hit Broadway in spring of 2012. No exact dates or theater have yet been announced.

Blanchard, who scored the currently running Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker With the Hat, is an influential jazz musician and composer. This Grammy-winning artist tours with his own band and performs with jazz greats including Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, as well as with the rap artist Common. He is currently working on his first opera.

Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning Streetcar tells story of the mental and emotional demise of the determined yet fragile Blanche DuBois in the squalid French Quarter apartment of her married sister and animalistic brother-in-law Stanley (Underwood). The play was last revived on Broadway in 2005 with Natasha Richardson, Amy Ryan and John C. Reilly.