The unidentified piano man in the video Cameron Crowe posted teasing an Almost Famous Broadway show is top composer Tom Kitt.
Hollywood director and writer Cameron Crowe hinted that there’s a musical adaptation of his cult film “Almost Famous” in the works on Friday — when he posted a short video clip of a man playing a piano amidst handwritten scribblings on the wall including the film’s title.
Broadway sources further told Page Six that the unidentified piano man in the video is top composer Tom Kitt — the Tony-winning music arranger behind the Green Day musical, “American Idiot.”
Pulitzer-winner Kitt’s credits also include “Next to Normal,” “Bring It On: The Musical,” and current smash “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
“Almost Famous” — the 2000 film that won a best screenplay Oscar — is Crowe’s semi-autobiographical tale of being a teen writer for Rolling Stone. Among the hand-written notes in the video clip of Kitt playing the piano is one that reads, “Stillwater sound check,” seemingly a reference to the fictional band in the movie fronted by Billy Crudup as rocker Russell Hammond. The film also starred Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit and Frances McDormand.
Kitt’s also worked on the Green Day studio albums “¡Uno!” and “¡Tré!” as an arranger.
