Pink Floyd's The Wall becomes a Broadway musical

According to Ananova, the album, which includes rock anthems like Another Brick in the Wall and Hey You, will be made into a musical by Miramax Films and Casablanca records head Tommy Mottola, who have bought the music rights from Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters.

The band's bassist Roger Waters has agreed to write and compose the orchestral arrangements for the New York stage production--about anti-hero Pink, who escapes into a dream world--after film company and former Sony Music boss Thomas Mottle bought the rights to develop the show from Waters.

Waters retained the rights to the album, after leaving the band in the 1980s, and turned it into a semi-animated 1982 film, starring Bob Geldof as a pop star who becomes insane.

Waters jokes, 'Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie.'

The musical will narrate the tale of a narcissistic and disturbed rock star named Pink, who escapes into a make-belief world after being beaten down society. Waters will also orchestrate the music.

Marimba Films co-chairman Harvey Wenstein says: 'I am thrilled to be involved with bringing The Wall to Broadway and to give new generations the opportunity to see this legendary show.'