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A musical adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is coming to Broadway next year.

The new musical will feature music and lyrics by Obie Award-winning composer Heather Christian (Oratorio for Living Things), book by Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band) and direction by double Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (Dance Nation). It will follow the plot of the 60-year-old book in which Meg Murry, her younger brother and friend have to travel through space and time to rescue her father.

“Knowing my grandmother’s love of and devotion to theatre, I had long envisioned a musical adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time that could transport audiences to a different dimension in a way only music can,” her granddaughter Charlotte Jones Voiklis in a statement. “I am inspired by this creative team who truly love and understand the original novel and yet are ready to explore the possibilities of what it could be on the stage.”

“We are thrilled to create a truly magical theatrical experience of this beloved story for multigenerational audiences to savour,” producer Dianna DiMenna added. “A Wrinkle in Time‘s themes of fierce love, loyalty, kinship, and friendship are universal balms for the soul, and will draw audiences into a collective adventure of bravery and triumph.”

In a joint statement, Yee, Christian, and Evans said, “A Wrinkle in Time is a wildly imaginative and deeply emotional story of a young woman searching for her father and discovering that her capacity to love and be connected to the people around her is her superpower. So much of the book feels gloriously impossible to stage — tessering through time and space, the chilling of world Camazotz and the indescribable ways of communicating on other planets in the universe — which is exactly why we’re thrilled to adapt this story into a musical. We’re so inspired by this iconic book and can’t wait to invite audiences to gather in a theatre to experience this moving, bold story told with all the electric magic of live performance.”