A stage musical about pioneering Chicano rock & roller Richie Valens is in the works, with Los Lobos’ Louie Pérez and David Hidalgo on board to provide original music alongside Valens’ hits.

Come On, Let’s Go – named after one of the “La Bamba” singer’s hit records – was announced today by producer Brad Garfield, who said the project is being developed for Broadway. Playwright Richard Montoya will write the book, with Pérez and Hidalgo handling original music and lyrics. The musical will also include Valens’ songs.

Tony Taccone, who recently ended his tenure as artistic director of Berkeley Rep and who first commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels In America at San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre, will direct.

Producer Garfield, a longtime television director for, among others, CBS Sports, said the new musical will not be a stage version of the 1997 biopic La Bamba (which also included...